TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches, recommendation, including free ad-supported streaming options and more for smart televisions. “As of Oct. 1, 2025, TiVo has stopped selling Edge DVR hardware products,” the company said in an … Continue reading "TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business"
There are a number of other homebrew DVR projects (the last time I looked anyway). However, the Tivo experience was always the best. It was a solid interface and rock solid hardware. Performance was never anemic. “It just worked”.
The most failures I saw were in hardware in the mechanical disks (user replaceable), and the power supplies (where they later switched to external bricks, also user replaceable). You could buy a Tivo for grandma and not have to worry she’d ever have to log into a console terminal to flush a cache or restart a process.
Part of Tivo Inc’s business failure, I imagine, is that fewer people are subscribing to cable, and the OTA TV market is just so small it isn’t a viable business model anymore. The tide has shifted to watching TV via streaming now.
There are a number of other homebrew DVR projects (the last time I looked anyway). However, the Tivo experience was always the best. It was a solid interface and rock solid hardware. Performance was never anemic. “It just worked”.
The most failures I saw were in hardware in the mechanical disks (user replaceable), and the power supplies (where they later switched to external bricks, also user replaceable). You could buy a Tivo for grandma and not have to worry she’d ever have to log into a console terminal to flush a cache or restart a process.
Part of Tivo Inc’s business failure, I imagine, is that fewer people are subscribing to cable, and the OTA TV market is just so small it isn’t a viable business model anymore. The tide has shifted to watching TV via streaming now.