Poor First Impressions for TiVoToGo

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Poor First Impressions for TiVoToGo

Thomas Hawk has his own (poor) first impressions for TiVoToGo as well as a wrap-up of similar reviews from other bloggers. I think it's still a good feature, though it has a lot of drawbacks and concessions made to the industry to let it happen. However, it seems like the first wave of reviewers are unhappy with the featureset and experience.

I gotta agree about the 802.11b limitation criticism though. It's surprising that there aren't wireless g adapters supported yet, as currently I'm using a usb 2.0 wired ethernet adapter linked up to a d-link wireless g gaming adapter to get decent transfers out of my tivo box, on my wireless g network.

by Matt Haughey January 20, 2005 in News

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Are you really getting USB 2.0? Is this a rigged up Series 1? Series 2, I thought only had a USB 1.0 port, which basically makes 802.11b a moot point since average throughput of USB 1.0 is about 4Mbps and g is around 40Mbps?

Posted by: Levi Wallach at Jan 20, 2005 12:12:35 PM

I bought my TiVo last May and I'm stuck with USB 1.0 (I think the marketing scam artists call that USB 2.0 Full Speed now days) so it takes longer to copy the file over a switched network than it does to PLAY it.

Posted by: mnb at Jan 20, 2005 12:44:30 PM

I have a hacked tivo running 2.0 drivers for USB, but I was under the impression that the feature was added recently to TiVo OS updates, so you could use the linksys usb200 adapter.

Posted by: Matt Haughey at Jan 20, 2005 1:13:02 PM

7.1 includes USB2.0 drivers. If you have a standalone TiVo with a model number that starts with a 2 or a 5, you have USB2.0 HW. If you have one of the very early units, which a model number starting with a 1 (110/130/140), you have USB1.1 HW. But the new drivers improve performance on those boxes a bit too.

Posted by: MegaZone at Jan 20, 2005 3:11:56 PM

I have Time Warner cable TV with their DVR and Road Runner. I'd love to upgrade to TiVo or Replay but can't decide which to get? I tape, ooops record, NBC and CBS news every night plus Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, etc. Every once ina while there will be a segment that I can use in my executive training class. I'd get a dvr with dvd burner but I only need a few minutes, not the whole show. And I can't find a dvr/dvd burner box that lets me burn multiple segment to the same disk. ....gdz

Posted by: Gary Zeune at Feb 2, 2005 6:44:09 PM

Poor First Impressions for TiVoToGo

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