OK, be gentle with me please...it's been a long time since I posted anywhere other than Happy Hour. I hope this is the appropriate place to post, since I'm not device-specific at this point, but let me know if I need to move to another forum.
After first experiencing the joys of TiVo via DirecTV's Series 2 many moons ago and subsequently migrating to Genie and then cutting the cord, I'm looking to get back into a long-term relationship with TiVo. I'm moving into a new house soon, and I want to plan my home media layout and start putting the pieces into place. I'm grateful for any direction you can provide pointing me to the best option(s) to meet my desired end state.
-- Home is wired with coax, with feed from exterior junction box to each TV / media location (if it matters: technically set up for DTV, as a hedge for needing to go back to satellite some day, but I plan to mount an OTA antenna on the roof instead).
-- Low-voltage wiring has been run throughout the home, with a structured wiring panel to allow for a switch to serve gigabit Ethernet to all the same locations.
-- Wired Ethernet will be supplemented by one of the current "mesh" WiFi options (e.g., Eero or Ubiquiti), but the plan is to use Ethernet only for everything outside phones, tablets, and laptops.
-- My desired end state is to feed to each TV a combination of recordable OTA, Netflix, Vudu, PlayStation Vue (mainly for "basic cable" content, but perhaps including premium cable content as it expands to the Vue service), and iTunes content (Apple TVs already part of the set-top-box mix). I'm looking at a total of 7 TV / media locations (2 main living areas, office, and 4 bedrooms).
-- Approximately 90% of all content we'll want to record will come from OTA sources, so I'm anticipating that we'll need a large amount of storage space.
-- Along the same lines, it's highly likely that content will stack up for a long period of time, as more often than not our viewing patterns align with "record it now and watch it at some point later".
Based on what I've gleaned from recent research, it seems I'm looking at one or more Roamios with Minis to non-Roamio locations, and I might need to plan for external storage for the Roamio(s). Am I on the right track to start, and where are the "gotchas"?
After first experiencing the joys of TiVo via DirecTV's Series 2 many moons ago and subsequently migrating to Genie and then cutting the cord, I'm looking to get back into a long-term relationship with TiVo. I'm moving into a new house soon, and I want to plan my home media layout and start putting the pieces into place. I'm grateful for any direction you can provide pointing me to the best option(s) to meet my desired end state.
-- Home is wired with coax, with feed from exterior junction box to each TV / media location (if it matters: technically set up for DTV, as a hedge for needing to go back to satellite some day, but I plan to mount an OTA antenna on the roof instead).
-- Low-voltage wiring has been run throughout the home, with a structured wiring panel to allow for a switch to serve gigabit Ethernet to all the same locations.
-- Wired Ethernet will be supplemented by one of the current "mesh" WiFi options (e.g., Eero or Ubiquiti), but the plan is to use Ethernet only for everything outside phones, tablets, and laptops.
-- My desired end state is to feed to each TV a combination of recordable OTA, Netflix, Vudu, PlayStation Vue (mainly for "basic cable" content, but perhaps including premium cable content as it expands to the Vue service), and iTunes content (Apple TVs already part of the set-top-box mix). I'm looking at a total of 7 TV / media locations (2 main living areas, office, and 4 bedrooms).
-- Approximately 90% of all content we'll want to record will come from OTA sources, so I'm anticipating that we'll need a large amount of storage space.
-- Along the same lines, it's highly likely that content will stack up for a long period of time, as more often than not our viewing patterns align with "record it now and watch it at some point later".
Based on what I've gleaned from recent research, it seems I'm looking at one or more Roamios with Minis to non-Roamio locations, and I might need to plan for external storage for the Roamio(s). Am I on the right track to start, and where are the "gotchas"?
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