What do you think? Is today’s Tweet by Margret Schmidt (VP of User Experience) yet another sign that TiVo is working on a new UI? If I had to guess, I’d say yes….
The TiVo User Experience team needs a Visual Designer http://bit.ly/t4XDM (Please RT & help us find someone who rocks!
From the job description:
Designing TiVo’s user experience presents unique challenges from making a depth of content and functionality remarkably easy to use, to designing for a platform that combines television with the broadband capabilities of mobile devices and traditional computers.
This doesn’t necessarily mean anything exciting. Any sufficiently large tech company needs at least one UE designer on an ongoing basis. It could simply be that one they had moved on.
They are just now looking for a guy to work on the new UI? So it’s a year or more away? They are behind the times and if they haven’t started playing catchup yet, they will be lost in the dust.
Not to mention the next TiVo is going to be a weird stackable box. When you want to add a hard drive…you buy one of these stackable boxes…putting the two together, and the TiVo now has more space. My problem with this…..I don’t want to buy my hard drives from TiVo. They will cost too much. I want to use a standard hard drive without all the proprietary stacking connectors.
why don’t you purchase an internal drive from either DVRupgrade or WeaKnees? That way you don’t have to have yet another external component…..
I’m not talking about the existing TiVo units…I’m talking out the next gen units. Just wait, you’ll see.
As for me…I’ve moved to a Media Center PC. TiVo just isn’t cutting it in my book.
How are you getting digital content to your MCE? Do you have cablecards hooked up to your box?
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