RE: https://mastodon.social/@drwhitt/116013020072945187

I’m officially a cord-cutter many, many years after it came into vogue. All of my content is strictly OTA or from streaming services.

Me and my family will greatly miss decades of happily using #TiVo CableCard-based DVRs. As @siracusa has lamented, paraphrasing, there’s really no good equivalent. Took a look at Channels but despite @caseyliss being quite enthusiastic about it, it just seems like a little too fiddly (not to mention that it’s just another subscription cost).

#cordcutting

I'm wondering what the processor is in Xfinity's X1 box.

It's SOOOO slow for everything. Is that by design??

Just being in the channel guide and moving among channels, goes at a snail's pace.

I guess I miss Tivo.

Speaking of channel guide, it's weird that you can't customize channels. You can create a favorite list-- Tivo allowed you to remove channels you didn't receive or want. Xfinity displays everything whether you have it or not. To create a favorites of everything you receive, when you have 500 channels, would take forever... especially since the channel guide is so slow. 😐 UGH. Frustration.

I kind of wish someone would buy Tivo and bring it back or sell it to Comcast. Unfortunately, that ship has probably sailed. Not sure they would be interested, even though is MUCH MUCH better.

#X1 #Tivo

A few weeks ago I started using Comcast's X1 DVR, as the cablecard in my Tivo failed. What I didn't realize it that cablecard quietly disappeared about 3 years ago. Comcast stopped billing me for having one, something I also didn't realize. I had told myself that once my Tivo stopped working I would switch to Comcast's DVR. By the way, Tivo went out of business last October.

Comcast's DVR is functional, but inferior in just about everything it does compared to Tivo.

Skipping commercials is a fast forward on the X1, while on the Tivo it was a simple button press and it would instantly jump to the end of the last commercial. You never saw the commercials. In retrospect, I think this is why I hardly ever saw ads for movies on TV, as I skipped watching most commercials. It's only when watching live, which is rare, and probably only for news or sporting events, do I ever see commercials.

Tivo must have have some patents that Comcast can't use.

#DVR #X1 #Tivo

1 constat que je fais depuis quelques années c'est que toutes les #database #movie sont US.

#IMDB de #Amazon bien sûr mais aussi leur alternative en #CreativeCommons comme #TheMovieDB ou #TheTVDB.

L'un a 2 propriétaires #TiVo et 1 société à capitaux privés. Assez vague donc prudence. Et l'autre FR racheté par #TVTime (US).

J'ai vu très peu d'alternatives en dehors d'interface utilisateur comme #SeriesGuide ; ou #OMDB (.org) mais actuellement géré par 1 gars & quelques admins.

#moviedatabase

I love my old #tivo. It doesn't have ads, records over the air with an antenna, has a lifetime subscription so no recurring costs. It's just the best part of tv, with the ability to fast forward, pause, rewind and be way more responsive than any stream service.

I learned how to upgrade the hard drive in it. I replaced a number of bad capacitors on the power supply to bring it back to life. I learned to solder to do so.

Streaming services seem like a superior catalog, but the playback experience isn't as good.