TiVo’s New Bluetooth QWERTY Remote

Although the focus of tonight’s TiVo unveiling was a brand new TiVo Premiere DVR, the company was especially proud from the upgrade towards the remote manage due out later this year. TiVo’s new Bluetooth remote features a QWERTY keyboard to help looking and discovering content.

Shaped identically towards the regular TiVo “peanut” remote, the new model slides horizontally to reveal a chiclet keyboard having a D-pad and a numeric keypad. This feature adds some girth in the direction of the usual remote’s size and also contributes to some somewhat flimsy feel. This, nevertheless, might be due towards the truth that all of the remotes we handled have been pre-production versions that looked to have been dealt with very a little bit. TiVo QWERTY remote desktop help

Simply because TiVo doesn’t have Bluetooth radios constructed in, the remote desktop help arrives with a USB dongle that’s plugged into an available USB port on TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, or TiVo Premiere boxes.

Even though D-Link’s Box also has a complete QWERTY keyboard on its remote desktop help, that specific unit is otherwise truly simple, with an iPod-like D-pad and a menu, enter, and perform buttons. TiVo’s new remote has just about 80 buttons in total.

The unit is far from elegant, but its utility is tough to dispute. It clings really closely to TiVo’s traditional type and users will no doubt truly feel very at house using it.

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