TiVo Slide Remote Now Just $43 At Amazon

[zonereyrie]

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custom boxed option

[jeffds3]

I think they should just let you custom order your whole set up. You pick the unit you want, the remote and the set of cables you want for hook up so that way you don't have a extra remote or sets of random cables later on. Every unit starts with the basic remote and composite video cables and you work up from there based on what you need. Between the 7 units my family has had we have remotes and cables coming out of the wazoo!

Re: custom boxed option

[zonereyrie]

The problem is cost. What are the costs to TiVo over including 'wasted' cables? And what would the costs be to run a 'build to order' system where each order is individually picked and assembled?

I suspect the build to order option would cost a lot more than anything they're losing on cables. They're not including overpriced Monster cables. The cables TiVo includes are quite nice, but they're just decent, generic cables, the kind you can get from Monoprice.com for a couple of bucks retail. And they're buying them wholesale.

Since most TiVo households are single unit, and they've already cut the cables they include back - according to the website: "Cables: HDMI, Ethernet, composite video/stereo audio, power". I think they still include a coax cable too actually, unless they've dropped that too. That's a pretty basic cable pack - no composite video, no S-Video (which the Premimere doesn't support anyway), no digital audio cable. The whole cable pack is probably just a few bucks.

Re: custom boxed option

[jeffds3]

I'll grant you the cost part of it. It's still an annoyance. I wouldn't mind paying an extra $5 for the option. When I got my HD XL it came with component, composite and HDMI, plus the coax and yet another splitter and the glow remote. The problem is that I have bags and bags of that stuff already. Plus it's not like I can do anything with the un-needed cables. If I'm using HDMI cables then I probably don't need the other ones because every device comes with all the extra cables too!

[winbear]

I got one of the Slide Remotes for Christmas. I like it (1) when I remember to use it (it's not my primary remote) and (2) when it actually works. The USB-BT adaptor sometimes doesn't initialize when the TiVo reboots or randomly fails otherwise. I thought the remote had both IR and BT, but nothing works when the BT is down. You have to get up and eject and reinsert the USB-BT dongle to make it work again.

[zonereyrie]

Hmm, I haven't had any problems with mine - I've had it quite a while now and I've never had to re-sync it, the dongle hasn't been removed from the TiVo since I first inserted it. The remote does have IR - but only the basic remote functions work via IR. And I believe the IR is only used if the remote believes it isn't connected via BT anymore. IIRC the light flashes blue when using BT, but amber-ish when using IR.

[robertgarret]

Very tempting. I have lived with the alphabet grid for the past...at least 5 years, and with the search function on my new Premire, this is VERY tempting. Thanks for the heads up.