Buyers guide to TiVo and Caspa
The newest box of tricks for your television, TiVo, is the biggest step yet towards media convergence.
It’s packed with functionality designed to fast-forward television into the future, when it will be the home’s central hub for everything from entertainment to commerce.
The drawback for early adopters is that it’s expensive, with limited content.
To use TiVo as a hi-tech video recorder with on-demand options, you need $920, a Telecom broadband connection and Freeview high-definition reception.
Set-up was surprisingly straightforward, the only hitch being TiVo’s tuner seems weaker than other Freeview HD tuners on the market, which may mean fiddling with an inside aerial.
TiVo’s lively graphical interface is far more appealing than the dull, text-based architecture of its nearest rival, MySky HDi. It also boasts extraordinary recording flexibility and customisation, with options to tailor and categorise recordings that will astonish those old enough to remember shelling out $2500 for their first video recorder. If you’re 45-plus, chances are you won’t find TiVo as easy to use as the marketing suggests.
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