I recently bought a 1TB Roamio OTA (with a Stream Box) with lifetime to replace my aging 1TB Series 3 with lifetime.
It installed like clock work, but in the end all I got was Commercial Skip.
The Stream Box was almost useless, since it never allows streaming out of home.
For $500 I figured I'd rather hold out for an affordable (and more current) Bolt so I returned it. But Roamio OTA worked fine.
Finally a few deals started showing up on Bolt's (I refuse to pay $849 for lifetime 1TB) with the new Bolt+ announcement.
So I picked up a brand new 1TB bolt with lifetime for $650.
After a bumpy start I noticed something wasn't right about the picture.
I have a 65" 2016 LG OLED 4K TV (C6). I've been very happy how it handles the TIVO 1080i (typically).
Not trusting my memory I hooked both up and A/B back and forth.
It's just a little bit softer. On a 65" OLED a "little bit softer" is really exaggerated. I noticed it as "pasty cheeks and foreheads".
I tried to enabled all Video Formats in the TIVO (so it would transmit Native) as well as Only enabling 1080i to make sure it didn't upsample 1080i.
I had my wife blind test it and she could clearly see it.
I also have a very high end home theater and the Fan in the Bolt is much noisier than the Series 3. Bolt runs uncomfortably hot in a very cool room with a dedicate shelf with no electronics below it. Series 3 always ran pretty cool.
I didn't notice either issue with the Roamio OTA. The Series 3 and Roamio look the same as the Native tuner in the TV.
The fact that the "4K Bolt" does NOTHING 4K, if and when it ever does, I just don't see how it possibly could do 4k properly since it can't even match an 8 year old Tivo at 1080i.
It's pretty depressing because this is Tivo's "Top tier" platform now.
Unfortunately Bolt is going back. Luckily I can return it.
It installed like clock work, but in the end all I got was Commercial Skip.
The Stream Box was almost useless, since it never allows streaming out of home.
For $500 I figured I'd rather hold out for an affordable (and more current) Bolt so I returned it. But Roamio OTA worked fine.
Finally a few deals started showing up on Bolt's (I refuse to pay $849 for lifetime 1TB) with the new Bolt+ announcement.
So I picked up a brand new 1TB bolt with lifetime for $650.
After a bumpy start I noticed something wasn't right about the picture.
I have a 65" 2016 LG OLED 4K TV (C6). I've been very happy how it handles the TIVO 1080i (typically).
Not trusting my memory I hooked both up and A/B back and forth.
It's just a little bit softer. On a 65" OLED a "little bit softer" is really exaggerated. I noticed it as "pasty cheeks and foreheads".
I tried to enabled all Video Formats in the TIVO (so it would transmit Native) as well as Only enabling 1080i to make sure it didn't upsample 1080i.
I had my wife blind test it and she could clearly see it.
I also have a very high end home theater and the Fan in the Bolt is much noisier than the Series 3. Bolt runs uncomfortably hot in a very cool room with a dedicate shelf with no electronics below it. Series 3 always ran pretty cool.
I didn't notice either issue with the Roamio OTA. The Series 3 and Roamio look the same as the Native tuner in the TV.
The fact that the "4K Bolt" does NOTHING 4K, if and when it ever does, I just don't see how it possibly could do 4k properly since it can't even match an 8 year old Tivo at 1080i.
It's pretty depressing because this is Tivo's "Top tier" platform now.
Unfortunately Bolt is going back. Luckily I can return it.
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