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TiVo Premiere
9.5 out of 10

TiVo Premiere

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Overall 6
6.0

Noisy - either the hard drive or the fan

Vic the sailor, ABT Electronics
2 April 2013
  • Summary: I have owned a number of Tivo models and currently own 3 Series 4 models. This XL4 is the noisiest of all of my Tivo's.
  • Pros: Easy To Set Up, Easy To Use, High Capacity
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Overall 8
8.0

LOVE Almost everything but...

Amask54, Amazon
13 March 2013
  • Summary: Faults: DVR makes a screaming noise when we use the page down button 2 or 3 times in a row... VERY annoying. When viewing "Tivo Central screen" while in playback mode...
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Overall 2
2.0

Tivo customer service is horrible

Person, Amazon
11 March 2013
  • Summary: The DVR works alright. I love the 4 tuners. I tried the on desktop program, but it keeps crashing. I bought the dvr in christmas, got 3 months free service.
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Overall 8
8.0

Way better than most cable company Set-top boxes, but hold off if you have DirecTV

Speedy T. Guru "tech guru", Amazon
6 March 2013
  • Summary: The TiVo Premiere XL4 is a nice box. no doubt. Tons of storage, simple and responsive GUI, great features.
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Overall 10
10

I love the new faster, more streamlined Tivo Premiere XL4

Mike, Amazon
28 February 2013
  • Summary: The new Tivo Premiere XL4 has such a great menu and the box just reacts much faster to user interactions than the previous Tivo boxes.
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Overall 10
10

Long set up, vast improvement over older Tivos

Louis Alexander "loualex", Amazon
13 February 2013
  • Summary: The hardware setup for this devise only took about 20 minutes. It was essentially a matter of plugging in three wires ( A/C, cable, HDMI).
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Overall 6
6.0

Good In Some Ways

A. Person, Amazon
1 February 2013
  • Summary: Well, people who rated this 5 stars clearly have not used the directv hr24 dvr. There's not much of anything this dvr does better other than it has 4 tuners.
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Overall 2
2.0

Software updates turn your $500 Tivo into a brick

Eric Tatara, Amazon
28 January 2013
  • Summary: Tivo products automatically update their software from time to time over the network connection. Typically, Tivo provides new features with the software updates, however,...
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Overall 10
10

Love being able to save a show, stop to go do something and come back to it.

Randi, Amazon
17 January 2013
  • Summary: At one time I switched to Comcast's dvr because everything was being switched to digital and I didn't want to buy more tivos and I didn't like it at all.
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Overall 6
6.0

i love the old Tivo, the new one is shit

Yee Hing Moy "pissed off", Amazon
16 January 2013
  • Summary: old tivo I love. the new one is much slower ui and it keeps on crashing. need to reboot to get channels back.
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