TiVo introduces new Roamio DVR with built-in iOS streaming
In its first major hardware upgrade in three years, TiVo introduced its fifth-generation hardware DVR series on Tuesday. On sale now with the odd nickname of “Roamio,” the new boxes promise a faster user interface and built-in streaming to iOS devices. At first glance, this new generation of TiVo looks like a big step up for cable TV subscribers who want to ditch their generic cable DVR.
The Roamio, or TiVo Series 5, line consists of three models. A smaller $200 Roamio model offers four tuners, off-the-air antenna support, and 500GB of storage. The larger models are largely the same except for storage—the $400 Roamio Plus model offers 1TB and the $600 Roamio Pro offers 3TB. Both high-end models support six tuners via multistream CableCard (there’s no ATSC tuner) and include integrated “TiVo Stream” functionality, previously available only as a $130 standalone product. As always, you also need TiVo service, available for $15 per month or $500 for the lifetime of a device.
TiVoThe three new TiVo models.
TiVo Stream allows users of TiVo’s iOS apps to download shows to iOS devices for later playback as well as stream live TV within a home network. TiVo officials said that later this year its iOS app would be updated to support streaming and downloading video from its DVRs from anywhere on the Internet. A prerelease app with this functionality worked impressively well—live video from a remote video source was of good quality during a recent demo I attended.
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