They just lost their market entirely. Cable has gotten too expensive. Everyone streams. Most providers are shutting down and telling people to go to YouTube.

TiVo said it remains "committed to providing support for our DVR customers and will continue to provide support for the foreseeable future." Translation. "You folks have 6 months to two years tops before completely abandon the platform beyond a token forum where you guys can share tips and vent frustration to each other. Hopefully that is long enough for us to convince the public Tivo means something else than its common vernacular."

We absolutely loved our TiVo back in the day, back when it had two analog tuners. But once cable went digital, TiVo decided to only support cable card digital TV, which is common in the US, but wasn't available in Canada, so we unfortunately had to give it up. But it was definitely one of the top products I can remember using. It was great while it lasted.

When you abandon your hardware, you are expected to abandon your software.

at least say someting about ATSC 3.0 high noon and drm getting in the way. As an parting gift.

> focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches

Today's TiVo is to TiVo of yesteryear what today's Sharper Image is to Sharper Image of yesteryear: a pointless company bearing the name of something great that used to exist for real.

Almost a year ago when my OTA TiVo bit the dust and TiVo didn't have a replacement in stock, I switched to a HDHomeRun (the 4K ATSC 3.0 version) and [1]Channels [getchannels.com]. It's easy to use and works well enough.

This is the sad end of an era. I was a TiVo subscriber since 1999.

[1] https://getchannels.com/

At its peak, TiVo was a household name...and in hindsight, it probably would have been possible to keep it going with relatively small amounts of effort.

For starters, they weren't all that great to their base - the folks with the lifetime subscriptions. They were the early-adopters and the enthusiasts, but they ran into issues once the lifetime subscriptions were tied to the analog boxes and the cable companies stopped offering that service...in such cases, the customers had to choose, and at the very least

I've been a TiVo user since the early 90s, maybe late 80s, including a couple DirecTiVos, combining with a DirecTV receiver.

It's been indispensable for OTA recording, especially for skipping commercials (although it's not always available).

Over the last few years, they continue to push new models at me, but only the cablecard-based ones, not OTA. I might have updated if they had a new OTA unit.

If they discontinue providing schedules for OTA programming, the "season pass" feature will be worthless, and I'll

I've always taken issue with smart TVs and their probable accelerated obsolescence. The TV vendors are not motivated to maintain or update the software on old models, instead focusing solely on next years model. That seems OK, until they intentionally fuck over the consumer.

This was born out for me personally just last month. I own a few Vizio Smart TVs. Their smart apps were being supported by Yahoo!, strangely enough. But, after several years, Yahoo! was discontinuing support for the smart apps(Amazon, Ne

But it's from the cable company (built into their boxes). I've never used them as a DVR, ever.

I've had TiVO since their first release, back in the day when you connected a phone line for them to dial out. I remember the uproar over skipping ads by industry ("how dare you!") and how "cool" it was to have, as well as some anticipation with the newer models they introduced. I had an entire stack of my TiVOs that I kept, after upgrades.

At some point Xperi bought the brand in 2020; prior to that, Rovi bought TiVO in 2016. It's not clear who started to trash the brand, but I'm blaming Xperi at this p

An era comes to a close. I was using a VHS recorder to time- and format-shift television shows I liked (specifically Babylon 5 at the time.) I remember the vice-president of TNT programming specifically calling us pirates for doing that, which we gleefully piled on in rec.arts.sf.tv.b5. :) Then TIVO came along about a year later (late 1999, early 2000, something like that) and the VHS experience went digital. Not only could we fast forward through ads, but TIVO's easily-cracked encryption allowed a wh

Such a shame. End of an era. We discontinued a few months ago only because they and Xfinity essentially forced us to with the discontinuation of CableCards. I know I'm not alone in thinking this: But their User experience is still better than anything out there. Stuff cached locally - no latency - no "launching apps" and clickng through different options and menus to get to your programs - commercial skip - etc. Streaming TV UX SUCKs. Almost makes me long for analog TV days - flip the knob - get the cont