TiVo TCDA94000 Stream

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Price: $90.00 $84.99   

Product Feature

• Stream up to four recorded shows simultaneously
• Watch a show on a mobile device as it?s recorded
• Wirelessly transfer shows to mobile devices

Product Description

TiVo Stream

Record. Transfer. Go.

TiVo Stream adds flexibility to your TiVo experience by letting you stream shows to mobile devices in your home, or wirelessly transfer shows and take them on the go. Imagine enjoying your favorite cooking show while preparing dinner or catching the ball game by the grill. Maybe you just want to send the kids upstairs to watch SpongeBob out of earshot. With TiVo Stream suddenly everybody's happy.

What you'll need

• One or more iPad^� , iPhone ^�, and iPod touch ^� devices running iOS 5.1 or later
• At least one TiVo Premiere series DVR
• Free TiVo ^� App for iPad, iPhone or iPod touch
• A wired Ethernet or MoCA connection between your DVR and home network
• No additional service fee

Download the TiVo brochure

"Watch Now" Flyout

Find something good to watch while browsing the Guide? Press the "Watch Now" button and you can choose to watch that show on your TV or on your iPad. It's a great way to keep everybody in the house happy when the big screen is occupied.

* Broadband internet connection required and additional fees may apply for receipt of third-party services. Netflix unlimited membership required. See Netflix.com for details.
** TiVo Service Plan requirements (See tivo.com for details.) TiVo service is required and sold separately. No functionality is represented or should be expected without a paid subscription to the TiVo service.
�� Designed for use only with digital cable systems. It does not receive analog programming, including over-the-air, and will not work with an over-the-air antenna. If you are unsure whether your cable operator's service provides digital simulcast of all analog programming, please contact your provider to determine whether it offers all-digital or digital simulcast service.
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TiVo TCDA94000 Stream Review

UPDATE (2013-08-02):

I've had the TiVo Stream for about 9 months now. It does what I expect it to do but, in the real world, it's rare that I'm sitting around my home and thinking, "I want to stream (whatever).." Also, it's very rare that I actually use it for copy shows off of my TiVo onto my iPhone or iPad because it's just so slow.

I suppose at the end of the day my verdict is: I could unplug it and I don't think I'd miss it.

ORIGINAL:

First, what it doesn't do: It doesn't let you stream outside your network. If you want to stream outside your network then something like a SlingBox is the way to go.

Now, for what it does do: It'll stream recorded shows from your TiVo to your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. It'll allow you to download recorded shows from your TiVo to your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. You can stream live TV but it really just setups a recording and then starts streaming that recording to your iPad or iPhone.

What works really well is the streaming of recorded shows. You select a show, push the 'Watch on my iPhone' button and off you go. You can watch as long as you stay within range of your wireless network.

For streaming of live TV, it works well, too, but it's going to leave little recordings around on your TiVo. So, if you see 'Local Nightly News' is live in the guide, and start to stream it, it'll setup that recording, stream it to your iDevice and you'll be happy. When you go back into your Now Playing List on your TiVo you're going to see a recording of "Local Nightly News". Now, you could argue that it should clean this up or you could argue that it should hide it or maybe there ought to be an option. As it is, it's just sort of left there. Not a huge deal but it just seems like it should have an option to hide / cleanup such recordings unless you specifically say, "Record this program."

Downloading to your iDevice: Here's where if falls a little short. Yes, you can download non-copy protected shows to your iDevice. There are a few things to note with this:
- Things like movies on HBO will almost always be copy protected.
- Some cable companies (wrongly) copy protect everything in their lineup (thankfully mine doesn't). So research a little to make sure you don't fall into that camp.
- You kind of have to baby-sit the downloads as there's no automatic way to make it happ. You can't, for instance, tell it, "Download and keep all of the latest Simpsons episodes," so you'd always have something to watch on mass transit on your way to work. Instead you have to individually select what you want on your iDevice each day that you want to watch something different.
- The downloading takes some time. A 30min show is going to run you about 5mins and a 1hr show will run you about 10min. Not a big deal but say you want to load up 5 shows on your iDevice to watch that day - you're now spending nearly 30mins to do it. So it's not like something where you can get out of the shower, select a few shows, and then head out the door. You're going to need to set it up probably the night before or just as soon as you get up and, because, as I mentioned above, there's no automated way to do this, you'll be selecting each program you want to watch individually each day.
- When downloading the TiVo app has to remain open. So if you're downloading 5 shows at nearly 30mins your iDevice is going to be stuck on the TiVo app until it's done. As mentioned above you'll probably want to do this the night before and charge it while it happens. It's not stuck in that it's frozen the device. You can still exit out and do other things but if you do so the downloads will be paused until you open the TiVo app back up and allow it to finish.

So, the downloading works, but really isn't convenient. I'd have a hard time imagining someone using it day to day. It'd probably work well for loading up some shows for the kids for a trip. You'd just need to plan beforehand so that all of the shows you like were loaded before you left (so think a night or two before depending on how much you're loading).

Oh, one other thing about downloading that's not so great. You have two quality modes. Think of them as 'low' and 'high'. I can't tell the difference between the two on my iPhone. The low quality will be about 300MB/30min. The high quality will take up 500MB/30min. Now, the annoying thing is that there isn't a setting to say, "Always use high quality when downloading," or "Always use low quality when downloading" (and if they did add that setting it'd be nice if they added, "Always ask"). The problem with this is that while you're are selecting each program individually to download, which is already rather tedious, you're greeted with this other option in the app in the app each and every time you select a show to download.

I think if they added the preferred quality setting to the menu, allowed you to download either individual programs or groups, and maybe add some kind of automated iDevice Season Pass like option, that they'd be well on their way to making this a 5 star - and, really, most of this review is about the app and not the Stream but you're interfacing with app to use the Stream. I still think they're going to be stuck with having to have the app open while you download as I believe it's just a limitation of iOS.

Finally, they need to update the app to support the iPhone 5's larger screen.

To my knowledge there is not currently an Android app (Nov 2012) but one is supposed to be available in 2013 so you Android users make sure that there's an app first and it supports the TiVo Stream before buying this.

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