Tivo’s Smart Guided Setup
Tivo is such a marvelous home appliance. The longer I own it, the more features it gets. What other appliance actually improves with age?
I don’t know when Tivo made the change, but it’s the best update to their software I’ve seen in a while. I recently changed my cable service package and this necessitated repeating the Guided Setup on both of my Tivos. In the past, the worst part of the Guided Setup experience has been trying to match the cable company’s package to the package descriptions provided by Tivo. Nightmare. I never felt completely comfortable that I’d picked the right one.
This time, the Guided Setup didn’t ask me for my cable package. Instead, it tuned to a channel and asked “Do you get this channel?” Rinse, wash, repeat, and Tivo figured out what package I had. Fantastic! This is a simple procedure that produces the correct results with a minimum of confusion for the user. It passes the “would my mom understand this?” test.
Thanks, Tivo, for making a fine product even better.
