My Tivo Premiere has a motherboard failure after 2 years, and they don’t save your recording to do list

My dad has a TIVO many many years ago, and I ended up getting one not long after. It just had the best interface of any cable provider, and the ability to schedule shows online was so amazing.

My first Tivo has a DVD burner built in, and then I moved to an HD Tivo, which lasted quite a few years, before moving to my Tivo Premiere about 2 years ago.

Previously I had also replaced a failing hard drive, in my Tivo 3 to extend it’s lfie

The latest Tivo interface was annoying in that it added adds into the channel lineup, but the interface was still great, and I still love the ability to set recordings from my phone whenever I hear about a new show.

The problem is, just before the 2 year mark my Tivo Premiere bit the bullet, and it looks to be a known hardware fault where the motherboard fails. Tivo would have let me purchase a refurb for $150 to replace my TIVO, but it turns out they didn’t save my Recording To Do List anywhere but on my TIVO.

And honestly it is the To Do List that is the most important thing, as it all your upcoming recordings. And that is something you can’t record at once, because so many shows only show up near when they are able to record. So losing this list is a huge thing. And knowing that the Tivo Premiere’s have motherboard issues, why program it again, when it will likely only last another couple of years.

And honestly we were paying too much for cable, to have hbo and all the channels, so we just gave up on Cable.

First we got a digital antennae, but first off some channels don’t work well (though the ones that do, look better than they ever did on cable), and the interface on the tv is so slow, and awful, and I have lived too long with a DVR to start trying to watch tv when it is on.

Frontier offered a deal on YouTubeTV, which is a basic cable with a DVR, and we got $10 a month off from them. So we did that and it works well enough, though some channels don’t look great, and I hate the recordings interface, which I can’t figure out the interface. Why aren’t the newest shows first? What order is it in exactly?

Still it works and less than were paying for cable and all the channels, and I can still watch the news.

My short film The Misadventures of Bear has been Selected by a 7th Film Festival, the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival at Comic Con

https://www.childrensfilmsd.org/The Misadventures of Bear has been accepted at it’s 7th Film Festival! This is the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival! WOOHOO!

We will be screening on Sunday July 23rd at Comic Con!

I can’t wait!!!

Apple brings it’s Pro Apps Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to the iPad, but makes it subscription

Apple will soon be releasing touch based Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for high end iPads, but as subscriptions at $4.99 a month or $49 a year.

Logic will work on any iPad with an A12 Bionic or later and Final Cut will only work 5th or 6th gen 12.9 inch iPad Pro, 3rd or 4th gen 11 in iPad Pro or 5th generation iPad Air.

I love that Apple is finally treating the iPad as pro as other companies, but I hate that it is subscription. I would rather pay $99 for a lifetime than have a monthly fee.

The month free is great, but if I had the program I might use it, but paying monthly for it, unless i am making a living off of it. And sure it is cheap monthly, but I just don’t see any subscription that I am not making a living off of.