TiVo Mavrik’s FCC confidentiality has lifted… suggesting the unannounced cord cutting solution is behind schedule but treating us to even more pre-release photos and intel on the product. It’s pretty clear at this point that Mavrik is a Tablo-esque network tuner that streams live over-the-air television and DVR recordings to set-tops, like Fire TV, and mobile devices. While we know Mavrik will offer a cloud DVR service, a la Boxee, it’s not clear if the two-tuner, headless set-top will also record locally via included SD slot or USB-attached storage.
More FCC analysis from the TiVo Community indicate the Mavrik incorporates Bolt-level processing and transcoding capabilities, an 8GB cache, and 512MB of memory. Beyond Tablo, also active in this space is Channels which utilizes HDHomeRun hardware to pipe live (or recorded) television into Apple TV and iPhone or iPad.
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SD card slot? Interesting.
I love my TiVo Bolt, but I do feel like TiVo just makes way more sense as a service. It seems like it would be more at home as an app instead of a whole set-top box. That said, if it just copies everything to the cloud, I would say for anyone with Comcast (or any other cable co internet with a cap), then this thing is DOA. If you can just plug in a USB hard drive, then it sounds great.
That SD slot is very interesting... I am assuming an SD slot would be required for minimal usage of buffer space? Not sure...