New TiVo Open Beta!

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New TiVo Open Beta!

Longtime friend of the PVR world, MegaZone sends along news about TiVo's newest Open Beta call.

tivopony, the TiVo employee that frequents the community boards, posts some details of the beta and hints at features that will be tested.

I'll tell you up front that it's a minor release, not a major one. But there's a lot of groundwork buried within. But should you get it? Well, if you own a 540 or a 590 prefix recorder that's experienced macroblocking with the previous release, you'll probably want this. If you have a TiVo-powered DVD Recorder or DVD Player and would really like to have TiVoToGo asap, you'll probably want this. If you'd like to have network support within Guided Setup, you'll probably want this.

Sounds like some bug fixes for certain models, TiVoToGo for the DVD recording TiVos finally, and another long-term request that goes all the way back to one of my first posts here over two years ago: allowing guided setup to use the network connection instead of a phone. [thanks Megazone]

by Matt Haughey August 5, 2005

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My pleasure.

I am very, very happy to see Network Guided Setup *finally*. That's been my #1 pet peeve with TiVo for ages.

Posted by: MegaZone at Aug 5, 2005 5:33:11 PM

I've done guided setup through the network. There's a prefix code you put in-- I think it's ,#410 -- and instead of using the phone, it runs through the network.

Posted by: cma at Aug 8, 2005 6:45:00 AM

Nice!!

Posted by: TiVouser at Aug 15, 2005 5:05:12 PM

I was in a pretty significant TiVO beta recently. Let me tell you this -- lots of NDOs, lots of crap, lots of BS, and not worth it at all. By the time the product I was testing was any way usable or decent, it was rolled out. What a joke. Not impressed, not going to do it again. If those TiVO fuckers won't pay me to be in their beta, faghettabout it.

It's not like my time isn't worth something. They sent this incessant stream of crap as "homework." It was practically a 20 hr a week job to piss with the tivo beta.

Posted by: Pfister at Aug 17, 2005 10:07:58 PM

New TiVo Open Beta!

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