Greetings!
About a month ago i made the switch from Dish's Hopper DVR with their Joey's to the Roamio. I was able to get in on a refurbished Roamio basic, uograded the hard drive and got two Mini's. All in all the transition has been great and I am loving my Tivo service. Here are a few obervations from my experience coming over from the Hopper.
1. There are some terminology differences but pretty minor and you adapt quickly... Hopper = Roamio, Joey = Mini, One Pass vs... Etc
2. The Tivo ui is much faster... This is a big deal for me as i can not stand a slow UI. The hopper was responsive and i would not have called it slow, also i had a first generation model so newer ones might be faster... Regardless, the Tivo is faster which is nice.
3. Love love love integration of streaming services along with my programs... If they add HBO Go it would be perfection.
4. Menu navigation is vastly better on the Tivo. It actually helps you find your programs and while not perfect i'll tske Tivo central anyday over the Hoppers menus. Especially with its superior speed.
There are a few features I realized that I gave up coming to Tivo... hope to someday see Tivo include some variation of these:
1. Dish's Joeys (mini) could control the host dvr's tuners or join a tuner. In addition to avoiding the no tuners available issue this also allowed pause in one room resume in another functionaliy. For me i set my system up so im primarily watching on minis so the ability to control the tuners woukd be very welcome.
2. Dish's Joeys (again mini) would allow you to continue watching tv in the corner while navigating menus ie when going to Tivo central.. On the primary dvr you can browse recordings during a commercial... On the mini, it drops the tuner when you go to tivo central. Again as I primarily watch on my mini's, this would be a welcome feature.
There were a couple features dish's hooper offered that the Roamio does not which i find I dont miss at all:
1. The dish dvr would eith their service on some programs automatically skip commercials. It was nice but i really dont mind skipping manually. Just wanted to mention it, not a feature i would necessarily want tivo to implelemt.
2. "Prime time anytime". When turned on the Hopper would automatically record all major networks everyday during prime time. The nice part was it would only tie up one tuner... The bad parts were that you get a ton of recordings you have zero interedt in and the ones you do like automatically dissapear after s couple weeks. I'm hoping once Tivo learns my watching patterns better the suggestions will be a far superior option.
When it comes to watching your content away from home:
- The hoppers ability to stream your recordings from anywhere was nice but required a good fast internet connection, was prone to dropping out and i never really got much use from it. While Tivo has an equivalent capability from what I read the user experience is pretty much the same. I think this is just a limitation of home internet connections.
- I have not yet tried it but the Tivo lets you download certain programs to a portable device for watching offline.... Really? Thats awesome, the hopper did not offer anything close to that.
All in all, i am very happy i went with the Tivo, especially as xfinity at my house has much better picture quality than i got from dish and the rate i pay is vastly better (saving 80/month for the same channels even after tivo's service). With the streaming service integration i feel like im actually getting a lot more for less money once i swallow the initial investment.
Overall the Tivo in my opinion offers a superior user experience. There are a couple features lacking in the mini's that i had with the Joeys. While I would love to see them brought in, I am getting along just fine without and i understand that most people probably primarily watch on their main DVR.
About a month ago i made the switch from Dish's Hopper DVR with their Joey's to the Roamio. I was able to get in on a refurbished Roamio basic, uograded the hard drive and got two Mini's. All in all the transition has been great and I am loving my Tivo service. Here are a few obervations from my experience coming over from the Hopper.
1. There are some terminology differences but pretty minor and you adapt quickly... Hopper = Roamio, Joey = Mini, One Pass vs... Etc
2. The Tivo ui is much faster... This is a big deal for me as i can not stand a slow UI. The hopper was responsive and i would not have called it slow, also i had a first generation model so newer ones might be faster... Regardless, the Tivo is faster which is nice.
3. Love love love integration of streaming services along with my programs... If they add HBO Go it would be perfection.
4. Menu navigation is vastly better on the Tivo. It actually helps you find your programs and while not perfect i'll tske Tivo central anyday over the Hoppers menus. Especially with its superior speed.
There are a few features I realized that I gave up coming to Tivo... hope to someday see Tivo include some variation of these:
1. Dish's Joeys (mini) could control the host dvr's tuners or join a tuner. In addition to avoiding the no tuners available issue this also allowed pause in one room resume in another functionaliy. For me i set my system up so im primarily watching on minis so the ability to control the tuners woukd be very welcome.
2. Dish's Joeys (again mini) would allow you to continue watching tv in the corner while navigating menus ie when going to Tivo central.. On the primary dvr you can browse recordings during a commercial... On the mini, it drops the tuner when you go to tivo central. Again as I primarily watch on my mini's, this would be a welcome feature.
There were a couple features dish's hooper offered that the Roamio does not which i find I dont miss at all:
1. The dish dvr would eith their service on some programs automatically skip commercials. It was nice but i really dont mind skipping manually. Just wanted to mention it, not a feature i would necessarily want tivo to implelemt.
2. "Prime time anytime". When turned on the Hopper would automatically record all major networks everyday during prime time. The nice part was it would only tie up one tuner... The bad parts were that you get a ton of recordings you have zero interedt in and the ones you do like automatically dissapear after s couple weeks. I'm hoping once Tivo learns my watching patterns better the suggestions will be a far superior option.
When it comes to watching your content away from home:
- The hoppers ability to stream your recordings from anywhere was nice but required a good fast internet connection, was prone to dropping out and i never really got much use from it. While Tivo has an equivalent capability from what I read the user experience is pretty much the same. I think this is just a limitation of home internet connections.
- I have not yet tried it but the Tivo lets you download certain programs to a portable device for watching offline.... Really? Thats awesome, the hopper did not offer anything close to that.
All in all, i am very happy i went with the Tivo, especially as xfinity at my house has much better picture quality than i got from dish and the rate i pay is vastly better (saving 80/month for the same channels even after tivo's service). With the streaming service integration i feel like im actually getting a lot more for less money once i swallow the initial investment.
Overall the Tivo in my opinion offers a superior user experience. There are a couple features lacking in the mini's that i had with the Joeys. While I would love to see them brought in, I am getting along just fine without and i understand that most people probably primarily watch on their main DVR.
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