Comments on: Want The TiVo Software Update?

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:58:16 +0000

I appear to be having networking issues on my S2. Not sure if it’s related or not, though I don’t believe anything else has changed in my environment.

By: Craig Sonis

Craig Sonis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:56:21 +0000

The new graphics are sweet and look crisp and clean now. But I too caught a minor bug last night too. Like “Nate L.” states above, the same thing happenes in my “wish list” searches (goes back to the top). This is very annoying as I have pages and pages of wishlist key words. Hope they fix this on sooner verus later.

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:53:39 +0000

This seems to be a pointless update (as opposed to minor) that didn’t need to be sent out for another 4-6 weeks and could have had some of these terrible bugs fixed.

Maybe we subscribers will be lucky and get a bug fix update coupled with the enabling of the Hi Def TiVo transfer features.

By: Nate L.

Nate L. — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:15:20 +0000

Bob – I’ve had errors in the ToDo list before, but they did happen to fix them before, but they reintroduced them in with this latest update.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:26:41 +0000

Andy, I’ve noticed no performance differences on my Humax. (Doesn’t mean it’s not there, just that I haven’t noticed it.) Also, I said “functional” changes – I did observe the updated S2 graphics, but it doesn’t change the way the TiVo operates. Assuming this really does contain TTG and MRV for S3/HD, then I’ll agree with you that it’s highly notable.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:34:17 +0000

I put my machines on the list shortly after Dave’s post and both had the update by 5 PM.
Nate, I’ve had that To Do list bug before. Hated it. I will test it out this evening.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:29:18 +0000

I *highly* disagree with your characterization of this as a minor update. On both of my Series2 units (one Humax and one TCD540080), the interface features all-new art, for one (more shadowy, futuristic, and modern looking � la Mac OS X). Speed – especially on the Humax unit – is also dramatically improved. I would say this is the best update TiVo has pushed out in a long time.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:53:43 +0000

I’m under the impression each new update is not just an “update” – that they’ve been re-writing the entire code base to make it more modular and perhaps in Java? So newly introduced bugs don’t surprise me.