Oct. 15, 2025 7:30 AM PT
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 “every thing, in all places, unexpectedly” method was to make DVRs pointless. However with the huge quantity of content material now on the market, curation is crucial to keep away from being overwhelmed. To this point, no streaming field or good TV — or app equivalent to YouTube TV — has come near the simplicity and ease of use of TiVo’s interface (“Say farewell to the TiVo box, the device that revolutionized how we watch television,” 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 companies” ignores the very best characteristic of TiVo: fast-forward and reverse on dwell tv recordings. With out that, watching soccer, with its fixed business and timeout interruptions, is a distress for me.
I’ve been advised that that is potential with some streamers, however once I tried, I discovered it clunky, unreliable and mainly 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 holding our machines going.
Robert Huber, Yorba Linda
