To the editor: There’s a rising development of firms making merchandise much less user-friendly whereas “enhancing” them technically. Often, that is an try and squeeze out extra revenue.
The promise of streaming’s “all the pieces, in every single place, all of sudden” method was to make DVRs pointless. However with the huge quantity of content material now on the market, curation is important to keep away from being overwhelmed. Thus far, no streaming field or sensible TV — or app resembling YouTube TV — has come near the simplicity and ease of use of TiVo’s interface (“Say farewell to the TiVo field, the machine that revolutionized how we watch tv,” Oct. 9). And TiVo’s peanut-shaped distant continues to place all others to disgrace ergonomically.
Columnist Michael Hiltzik’s assertion that “DVRs aren’t wanted for streaming providers” ignores the perfect characteristic of TiVo: fast-forward and reverse on dwell tv recordings. With out that, watching soccer, with its fixed industrial and timeout interruptions, is a distress for me.
I’ve been advised that that is doable with some streamers, however once I tried, I discovered it clunky, unreliable and principally unusable. TiVo simply works. And naturally, skipping commercials is a snap with its triple fast-forward — sorry, CNN and its advertisers. Kudos to Spectrum for retaining our machines going.
Robert Huber, Yorba Linda
