While I can’t say the above TiVo Mini packaging is brand spanking new, I do frequent Best Buy and this is the first time I’ve seen funkadelic Roamio branding applied to other devices in TiVo’s arsenal. Beyond a bolder “TiVo” font and updated graphical elements, 6-tuner and Roamio DVRs are now referenced. Of course, I fully expected this day would come… back in 2013, when Best Buy had TiVo Stream hardware on clearance. Related, this particular retail outpost featured zero Stream inventory, not even a tag.
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I wonder if they changed the remote to be a Roamio one as well. I doubt it, because I doubt they would do that without adding the RF controller. I purchased a Roamio one just so that my boxes all had the same style remote. Only thing is that I wish I had a dongle so that I could use it with RF. I guess I could find someone with a Roamio that buys the slide one that might give me the dongle...
@Josh,
My thoughts as well. This change appears to be external only but I wouldn't be surprised if we see a minor hardware refresh at some point. I suppose TiVo could decide to start selling the RF dongle separately as well or bundle it with the Roamio basic RF remote.
Also Jason Nealis has been lobbying for a wireless Mini...