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I have a secret...in all the years, I have never noticed the need for Tivo. 25 years back, I might have been first in line for it but today, TV is just not that interesting to me. In fact I do not, now don't tell anyone, have cable. Not for like 6ish years now and with all the online streaming today, from the networks themselves, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon On Demand (never used it though), I am happy with the $18/mo my Netflix sub costs.
There is a Tivo STB for Netflix isn't there?
Don't even talk to me about this Silverlight switch on NF. For some reason the image will not scale to below about 45% of the display width. So, it is really intrusive if I am working or doing something else with a video on in a small window. I am not sure but it might be a self induced thing. I seem to recall there was a way to fix the minimum stream quality for NF...but it might have been Hulu instead. I forget the small mods these days so many other things happening every day.
Interesting to read about the Roku survey. It's needed, the current generation of the UI just is not made for the way folks seem to want to use the service. I visit their (Roku's) board now and then, not a lot different week to week. I did read in there somewhere that changes were definitely coming as soon as the Roku SDK was done and released to developers. but they really needed the SDK solid before anything is going to happen.
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