The TiVo spring update has been released to TiVo Roamio, Premiere, and Mini owners who registered their boxes via the priority list. Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be a lack of network intel as 20.4.1 primarily addresses open issues versus deploying dramatic new customer facing features (that I often learn of prior to release). Some highlights from VP Margret Schmidt’s release notes:
In conjunction with those dastardly C133 errors, which have been seen with far more frequency in the last year, TiVo has also launched a network service status page at http://status.tivo.com. Equally interesting is the addition of a Default Recording Options screen — nice to see this kind of core functionality update for power users. However, Margret says the real “cool stuff” is being prepped for a Summer Update. And I’m expecting a massively reworked streaming framework to finally support Android and 3G access. Not to mention, we had it on good authority Amazon improvements were coming and we’re still digging for more on the rumored three column interface. Speaking of interface, the Spring Update does not complete the HDUI (after all these years) nor does it refresh the Mini’s UI to Roamio’s look & feel. Lastly, at least two Mini owners have been unable to upgrade units thus far – failing with an S03 error that TiVo is currently researching.
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This update is what software updates are all about - fixing bugs and improving stability. It can't be Christmas time every quarterly update!
After the major software releases TiVo had late last year a bug fix only update was a smart move. But to be honest there's only so much one can due with a software development + test cycle of 3 months!
Hey, Summer is only 3 months away. :)
Thank the gods we finally have default recording options! Changing new only and all on all SPs were so annoying. Glad they are fixing what is there. Hopefully they figure out those C133 errors tho I will admit I haven't seen them in a while.
I am hoping that they are including the fix for the fact that it tries to use 2 tuners to record a wishlist that I manually padded - this will be especially important for me once the NHL playoffs start since NBC loves to schedule 2:30 for a game that just about always takes 3:00. I want to pad the recording and not have TiVo record the unpadded recording on one tuner and the padded recording on another.
(They did state that it will be included when I opened a support ticket a few months ago).