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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
TiVo Mini will replace your second DVR. But, won’t completely do away with additional subscription costs.
If you take your DVR serious, you may have sprung for a TiVo instead of trusting your TV-watching needs to your cable or satellite provider. Up until this point, if you wanted additional TiVos in your home, you had to purchase additional units, which could be quite costly, especially if it’s a room you only occasionally watch TV on. TiVo is announcing a new accessory to its main set-top-box that will make those infrequently used rooms less costly to have a TiVo in.
The TiVo Mini will allow current TiVo owners to access applications and use their existing DVRs to watch live TV and recorded shows in additional rooms for an additional $5.99 a month, or through a one-time service payment of $249.98. Those prices are in addition to the actual price of the TiVo Mini, which costs $99. Mini is key here as the device measures in at 6.1 inches wide and 1.3 inches tall making it quite small. (more…)
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TiVo fans who want to be able to watch whatever they want, in any room that they want can finally stop waiting. Sure, some have been satisfied with TiVo’s Multi-Room Viewing even though it required multiple DVRs with the multiple Now Playing lists and multiple ToDo lists that go with them. But for those TiVo fans who want a single whole-home DVR, the TiVo Mini is available to order for $99.99 plus a $6-per-month subscription, or $249 for the device with lifetime service. This is less than the cost of another TiVo, but more than most set-top boxes available at retail. Of course the Mini can do what most less expensive retail boxes cannot; take the place of a DVR and deliver the most popular programming source in America, premium cable TV. Exactly how well it extends the TiVo experience to another room is what you’ll find out if you click through.
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If you have a TiVo in your home entertainment set-up and wish it could serve its content elsewhere, here’s a solution. The TiVo Mini is an extender box which lets you stream to another room for $100—plus a $6 monthly fee. More »
Remember the adage that good things “come to those who wait?” Well, if you managed to hold your nerve and resist signing up with Suddenlink, then your patience is ready to be rewarded. The TiVo Mini is finally ready to strike out on its own two feet four rubberized corners. The DVR extender will set you back $99.99, plus a monthly charge of $5.99, or a one-off payment of $149.99 — in a way, you kinda wish the company had just priced it at $249.99 and let us get on with it.
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Via: The Verge
Source: TiVo
TiVo has finally launched the TiVo Mini, its compact streaming box that funnels shows from your 4-tuner Premiere to other TVs in the home. Running over either wired ethernet or MoCA networks – with no WiFi option, at least at this stage – the TiVo Mini comes in at $99.99 (with a service fee sting) and basically takes over one of the Premiere’s tuners, prioritizing it for another room.
TiVo has been talking about the idea for some time now, even announcing the Mini – albeit as the IP-SBT – back in mid-2012. As well as pushing live and recorded TV around the home, the Mini also supports Pandora and Spotify for streaming audio, and allows for recordings to be scheduled (including Season Pass).
You can also pause playback on one TiVo and resume it on another, handy if you’re moving around the house and want to keep watching the same show.
Over at Zatz Not Funny they’ve already been getting to grips with the TiVo Mini, and while it earns an eventual recommendation – if you’re a quad-tuner Premiere owner already – it’s not a completely clean sweep. Coming in for the biggest criticism is the extra service fee TiVo levies: if you buy the Mini for $99.99, you’re also looking at $5.99 per month to actually keep it working.
TiVo does offer a “lifetime service” deal, but that pushes the extender to $149.99 (we’d still opt for that ourselves, given you’d be saving money after the ninth month). Meanwhile, there’s no Netflix streaming, something you get even on a fifty-buck Roku box; TiVo would rather you use YouTube, Hulu Plus, or XFINITY On Demand (if you get it where you live).
The absence of wireless streaming is likely to be the biggest fly in the ointment at this stage, with rival placeshifting boxes using 802.11n to push up to HD content around. Even the original Premiere has to be hooked up over ethernet, not wirelessly. If that fits with your home entertainment installation, you can buy the TiVo Mini from today.
TiVo Mini shares the Premiere love whole-home for $100 is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If that TiVo Premiere of yours still doesn’t have enough content sitting in its memory to satisfy your appetite, you’re in luck, as Flingo’s LauchPad on-demand video platform has just been baked into the hardware. Now, channel surfers can stream content from more than 70 video apps from the likes of A&E, CollegeHumor, Crunchyroll, History, Showtime and others. LaunchPad for TiVo will also feature exclusive content, but details regarding just what it might be are scarce. In addition to the bevy of streaming options, users can even “fling” online videos from other devices to their television screen with the aid of a bookmarklet. Ashwin Navin, Flingo co-founder and CEO, tells Venture Beat that he’d like to implement the firm’s SyncApps second screen tech into TiVo’s box, but that won’t be coming in the near future.
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