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Tivo Bolt Hard Drive Upgrade4/17/2021
A change like this would completely change the face of television in this country, so its a missed opportunity.TV watchers got fed up with mediocre cable TV content and the associated high costs a very long time ago and the cable TV providers are now feeling their ire.Renting the cable TV box was the final straw for some, but others just realized that the 200 bill every month was a complete waste of money for programming that is sub-par at best, when they can do it all for far less money and still get better services to boot.
So when the time finally comes to cut the cable TV cord, TV fans realize early on that they will need a good media center to help them wrangle all the new media choices out there. Smart TVs have some useful features, the Roku player is definitely a player (no pun intended), but the best choice is a dedicated media center and Tivo has the most compelling product around. But one true thing remains: cable TV is for the birds and the new media devices and sources are taking over the world of television. An internet connection will bring in the could based streaming services like Netflix, HBO, Amazon and Hulu. Lastly, Sling TV delivers those odd-addiction cable channels that you just cannot do without, like HGTV, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and ESPN. To tie this all together you will need a good media center and the 2019 Tivo BOLT may be just the perfect solution, at least for now. A Tivo media center offers up live over the air TV (OTA), is able to record OTA shows and has enhanced streaming abilities that gets all the staples like Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Netflix all in one space. The 2019 Tivo Bolt OTA delivers for cord cutters, but its not all plain sailing. The new box is a 1TB OTA model number 4281 and it delivers on many levels. The new OTA unit seeks to streamline the confusing range of Tivo boxes to just one choice, but this may indicate that Tivo may be giving up on this genre of media centers, with one last final push. ![]() ![]() Tivo is now pushing more cable TV varieties of its popular box, which could be a big long-term mistake as people are clearly ditching cable TV as fast as they can, making it a shrinking market. Long gone is the unreliable Tivo Streaming box (TiVo TCDA94000 Stream), may it rest in peace, at least on eBay because nobody likes a landfill. Tivo has introduced QuickMode which plays recordings 30 faster while pitch correcting the audio to keep it from sounding like a squirrel, so you can comfortably speed through content and still understand what everyone is saying. With QuickMode, you can watch a 60-minute show in approximately 40 minutes and its even faster if youre skipping the commercial breaks. The 4K aspects of the BOLT are impressive, but meaningless if no one actually transmits in this format. OTA programming remains less than 4K and unfortunately Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and HBO all have plans to move to to 4K at some point just not yet. The 4K graphics board on the Bolt is ready to go for when this technology is embraced, but it remains to be seen if anyone starts transmitting or streaming in this format in the lifetime of this box, which is anticipated to be 3 years, right about the same time my 4K TV will self destruct. The new box has a bunch of drawbacks and missed opportunities. This technology is actually already built into the cable TV version of the Tivo Bolt, but not in the OTA version, so making it a bit confusing why it is not part of the box itself.
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