10. TIVO ROAMIO OTA – Best 1080P TV Box with Professional Recorder
Despite not being able to record streaming videos or directly from an antenna, the TiVo Roamio OTA is powerful enough for a TV Box.
It has features like QuickMode (for watching recordings 30% faster with pitch-corrected audio) and SkipMode (allows you to skip commercial breaks of recorded shows with just one push).
In addition to watching and recording live TV shows, Roamio gives you access to on-demand services such as Amazon Prime Instant Video, Hulu, Netflix and more if you subscribe to them.
It can pull in programs OTA (Over-The-Air) through an HD antenna, which means that you can record from networks like FOX, BBC, Univision, CBS, ABC, PBS, and NBC.
OTA (Over-The-Air) 1TB
The OTA 1TB is compatible with TiVo Mini for multi-room viewing, and TiVo Stream, to watch recorded or live TV on Android and iOS devices or Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV set-top-boxes.
With a one TB hard drive, you can record up to 150 hours of HD programming, and up to four shows at once with the help of the multiple tuners.
The Roamio OTA has several different ports that allow you to connect easily. The exterior part of the TiVo Roamio OTA is quite similar to the standard edition.
It highlights similar features like its predecessors such as HDMI, Ethernet, coax cable, composite video, USB ports and 2.4G/5G WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n. However, the largest one on the lineup is the DVR recorder.
This android box measures 14.2 inches wide, 7.4 inches wide and 2 inches tall.
With all being said, you’d need to pay a mandatory $15 per month which most people regard to like a lot of money.
However, these people forget the power and the convenience that TiVo’s software and service deliver and it worths $15 per month if you take your time to do the mathematics.
Yes, it is a ton of cash to spend just to watch a TV. Yet, you have to consider the fact that the subscription fee also makes some of the Roamio OTA’s and other software features possible.
- Low initial cost.
- Streaming options and four OTA HD tuners.
- Powerful software with a dynamic UI.
- No cable subscription required.
- No HDMI-CEC.
- It can only capture streamed video or OTA content from services you have subscriptions to.
- Difficult to program DVR to record only new episodes.
- Premium OTT services are not available.
- $15 mandatory monthly service fee, with no Lifetime Service alternative.
- Can’t access the satellite.
