I'm using it with my Amazon Prime and Netflix accounts, waiting for Hulu Plus (I have the no-ads sub). I'd hazard a guess that Tivo's fees will go down sometime next year when their patents expire. The Bolt ties into the Tivo like my Roamio never did - viewing over wifi on iOS devices is built in now - nice, that. If I need more space I can either put in a larger hard drive or connect an eSATA drive and Bolt (or the Roamio) will automatically format the new drive. I'm also using my older Slide Pro remote with the Bolt (bought on sale from Amazon) - the slide out keypad is helpful for searching. I tried an X1, but returned it - too tied up in the Comcast cloud and a buggy interface were the turnoffs. The Bolt's picture and sound output is much nicer, the interface is much faster, and there's a year's worth of fees included (I was month to month with the Roamio). Comcast charges me $1.99 per month for the cablecard but credits my account $2.50 per month, so it's a wash (a cheap wash, at that).ĭon't buy a Roamio. I have a Winegard amplified HD antenna (made in Iowa!) connected to my HDTV so it's effectively a 5-tuner set up. 4 tuners is enough for me, and I've read that the 6-tuner units will be out early next year. The Bolt is IMO a much better and nicer set-top box. I had a Roamio Basic and now have a 500GB Bolt, connected to Comcast now but I did test both on OTA HD channels. They just started doing them all in HTML5 and the newer ones are much better. Part of the problem was up until recently, all of the apps on TiVos were in Flash. The Spotify app is also crap (unless they've updated it recently). It does have Prime Instant, which is nice. I very much dislike the Netflix app on the TiVo, I use my AppleTV for that. FiOS (at least in my area) has no copy protection on channels other than HBO and Cinemax (that I've tried), so I can pull any show off the TiVo. Then when FiOS was available in our area, switched to FiOS but kept the TiVos and have just upgraded our TiVo boxes along the way. We replaced our Comcast boxes with TiVos about 8 years ago. If they had a 6-tuner one I maybe would've considered. The Bolt seems pretty pointless to me for now, other than the auto-skip (which isn't on ever channel anyway). And the out-of-home streaming is vastly superior to using our Slingbox. If someone decides to watch via the app, it goes down to 4. So if someone in our guest bedroom is watching something via the Mini, our box only has 5 usable tuners. I have 2 4-tuner models and a 6-tuner model.Īlso, if you have a TiVo Mini or stream via the TiVo app, it "steals" one of the unused tuners. I've never maxed out all 6 tuners at once recording. There are nights a week 4 tuners are recording a program at the same time. Click to expand.2 is absolutely unacceptable in our house, and I would imagine it is in many households with families with different tastes in programming.
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