What a craptacular job on the part of the folks at Tivo. They interrupt my viewing to tell me about their new feature, and then lock up my tivo for going on 5 mins now, with a “please wait” message. Yeah, all that dev work is now totally wasted, because as soon as I hit post, I’m going to do whatever it takes to interrupt your stupid piece of crap, and go back to watching like I always have. You really didn’t think to have someone QA how long it takes to startup your new feature? No one could manage to grasp the idea that your first impression is your only impression, so maybe you should pre-load stuff in the background before you ask someone to try it?
Morons.
Wow, and now it crashed back to live TV without ever even getting into the new feature.
Crap job Tivo.
UPDATE: I ranted some with the VP of Product Marketing at Tivo. He claims the craptacular results are the result of unrelated network issues. The fact that no one on his dev or QA teams thought of the test case for “network failure at Tivo HQ” doesn’t impress me. I pointed out that Tivo-of-today doesn’t do things to make customer life easier, they do it because someone paid them to. Like skipping a 3-thumbs-up program, in favor of recording some mid-season replacement crap pilot, on a network without a single show I’ve ever given a single thumbs up to. If he thinks I should try it out, that’s almost a guarantee that it’s not worth my time.
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