Edge of Tomorrow
WHEN TIVO burst on the scene in 1999 it changed the way millions of people watched TV. Gone were the days of manually setting up a recording on your VCR and then having to wait for a program to finish. Now, by using TiVo’s DVR, you could not just record but pause Live TV in order to answer a phone call or take a bathroom break.
The last TiVo DVR I reviewed was the Premiere back in 2010 and I felt the hardware had taken a major step back compared with the company’s previous Series 3—the first DVR with high-definition capability. Its user interface was poisonously slow, and while the box improved over the years with updates, it never reached a point where it outshined its predecessor.
I have a longstanding relationship with TiVo since I’ve used or reviewed virtually every product they’ve released over the past 13 years. The Series 3 served me well for a decade, but when Comcast launched its MPEG-4 service, I had to purchase a new Roamio to take its place. Unfortunately, that box had a catastrophic hardware failure after two years, but TiVo thankfully stepped up to the plate and replaced it with a first-generation Bolt along with a lifetime service package for a nominal fee.
The most recent DVR I was sent is
