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Cake day: June 13th, 2025

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  • I remember buying a new TiVo in 2008ish and having to download the schedule manually and import it until I was able to hack it to use a wireless adapter.

    It reminds of boomers who were part of the computer science world in the 70s and 80s and thinking we still use punch cards and 8" floppies. They were ahead of their peers, but got stuck there.


  • I abandoned my TiVo in 2021 when I went to update my box that had been in storage for too long. There was no incremental update available, I would have had to send the box to TiVo for them to update it for me.

    I connected my Roku that had been in storage even longer and it updated itself without any issues. It took me longer to contact TiVo customer support than it did for my Roku to update itself.

    While we loved our TiVo boxes while we had them, and they were ground breaking technology, they stagnated. TiVo never kept up technically.

    Bleep bloop bye