TiVo HDUI 2.0

The new TiVo HDUI see both visual and speed enhancement, but there's still room for improvement. http://bit.ly/woq5Qf

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Science & Technology

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• TiVo
• dvr

[Techraingeek]

when does this come out

[davezatz]

@Techraingeek It's a staggered rollout of 2-3 weeks. TiVo Premiere and Premiere Elite customers started receiving it Thursday night.

[vsaroca]

Nice improvement. I wish you had shown the full guide too.

[davezatz]

@vsaroca I figured since the full grid guide and live guide had been displayed in blogger coverage and on Twitter, I could skip it. I posted a screengrab of the grid guide on my site via the link in the description above (and am not a fan of the live guide, although visually it looks real nice with the update).

[tchipp23]

Kendra.... really???

[davezatz]

@tchipp23 I like my wife more than I dislike reality TV. :)

[joeinwap]

Any hints of this coming to the THR22 (DirecTV with TiVo) units?

[Techraingeek]

how did you get this early?

[mattack4]

I have Tivos and go into the To Do list at LEAST once a day because I tweak padding and other stuff. The SP list is basically a "first pass" at recordings. If I had an Elite, I still wouldn't necessarily have enough tuners to get everything *with padding*. (Many if not most shows I watch need at least a minute on each end to successfully get the full show.)

So I OCD-ly check the To DOo list.

[zonereyrie]

@proberts42 Why do they go into the To Do List multiple times a day? Don't they trust the TiVo to record what they've programmed?

[proberts42]

@zonereyrie Of the 5 Tivo owner I know personally they go into Todo List multiple time a day and Season Pass manager a few times a week. I Really want them change so that when at Tivo Central Screen and hit Left it should do the Zoom command and return to normal viewing.

[zonereyrie]

For the content that you said is too slow, from the Discovery Bar, that's being pulled in over the net. I suppose it is a trade off - do they pull down all of the info and pre-cache it to speed things up or not? If they do then that's a lot of broadband traffic for content that probably isn't accessed very often. If not, then there is a little bit of lag when you first access the content and it pulls it down. It seems like once you access it it does cache the rest of the info for that session.

[zonereyrie]

@robtheicon I love the TiVo sound effects, I think it is the best feedback the UI has so you know when the command has been received.

[zonereyrie]

@proberts42 Because the To Do List and Season Pass Manager, and the other screens still in SD, just aren't as important. They aren't accessed as often by most users, so it really doesn't matter much if they're not in HD. They'll get updated in time, but there is more impact on the consumer from updating the commonly accessed screens. Also, these UI elements are pretty much what they developed for Virgin Media. So this about bringing the branches together for better returns overall.

[vsaroca]

@davezatz Yeah I saw those, I was curious about the performance and what the A, B keys do.

[Techraingeek]

@davezatz cool I like some of the stuff but your right its still really slow well I play with it when it comes out for the premire