If you’ve been thinking about cutting the cable-TV cord, you might be in for a rude awakening: Live-TV streaming services, which aim to take cable’s place, are not inexpensive — and prices are on the rise. Indeed, in recent months, DirecTV Now, Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV have all seen price increases. With rare …
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DVR manufacturer TiVo appears to have set up a placeholder app for Alexa last weekend, Dave Zatz reports. TiVo announced at CES in January that it would be bringing Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to its boxes, old and new. Last March Amazon announced the skill programming interface (Google translation from Spanish) that would make it possible. The creation of the placeholder …
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The TiVo you know as an alternative to your cable company’s DVR is still around, but the company is betting on the cloud for the future. On Thursday TiVo announced its next-gen platform, a catch-all product for “providers” like cable companies. It’s available for multiple TV devices, including not only Linux- and Android TV-based set-top boxes and traditional DVRs, but …
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If you want one clicker to control a rack full of AV gear, I recommend the excellent Harmony Smart Control for $70. If you really want to splurge on something even better, grab the Elite for $250. But maybe even that do-it-all clicker isn’t good enough for you. Maybe you want “a new kind of television experience.” One option is …
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With the Bolt Vox, TiVo finally adds voice controls to its entertainment experience, joining Roku, Apple, Amazon, Google and Comcast Xfinity. The company’s latest series of 4K-resolution DVR and streaming media boxes combine all the features of the current Bolt models with a new voice remote control and next-gen user experience. In fact, TiVo says the Bolt Vox has the …
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If you love TV, then you need a digital TV recorder. It’s as simple as that. Using a hard drive to record programmes is easier to live with than VHS and more practical than burning to blank DVD. In this article Free vs subscription Basic features explained High definition or standard? Set-top boxes Beat the switchover Things to be wary …
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