{"id":382527,"date":"2010-03-02T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5484061"},"modified":"2010-03-02T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:56:08","slug":"tivo-premiere-qwerty-remote-requires-another-dongle-tivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382527","title":{"rendered":"TiVo Premiere QWERTY Remote Requires ANOTHER Dongle [TiVo]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>When we saw Vizio’s gargantuan QWERTY<\/a> remote at CES, we knew a new era was upon us. Now TiVo debuts their premium QWERTY remote slider and, yes, the day in which you change the channel with a Sidekick has come.<\/p>\n

Joking aside, TiVo’s upcoming QWERTY remote is an interesting evolution of their classic peanut. Popping out like a slider, the backlit keyboard allows easy text entry for new TiVo Premieres.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit large in your hand, which means it feels a tad less perfect than the classic TiVo remote<\/a>. But the Bluetooth connectivity means you don’t need line of site, which is always nice.<\/p>\n

However, when it’s available later this year for an undisclosed price, there’s a big catch: It will come with a USB dongle. The Premiere doesn’t have Bluetooth for reasons we don’t really understand (it’s not expensive at all to stick a Bluetooth chip into even small devices like cellphones now). So, somewhat anticlimactically, TiVo’s flagship remote will require a Bluetooth dongle (on top of the Wi-Fi dongle you’ll probably need). I wouldn’t call this a dealbreaker, but for a company that designs a very small ecosystem of hardware, it’s not the best thought-out plan, is it?<\/p>\n



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When we saw Vizio’s gargantuan QWERTY remote at CES, we knew a new era was upon us. Now TiVo debuts their premium QWERTY remote slider and, yes, the day in which you change the channel with a Sidekick has come. Joking aside, TiVo’s upcoming QWERTY remote is an interesting evolution of their classic peanut. Popping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}