TiVo Edge DVR

Top-notch DVR recording and viewing options ; Much quieter than earlier TiVos ; The antenna version has a backlit remote

Recordings are getting pre-roll video ads ; Whole-home DVR still requires expensive add-on boxes ; App support is falling further behind dedicated streaming players

One might imagine an alternate history for TiVo, in which it doubled down on its DVR fundamentals by letting users record more of the video that they’re watching over the internet, and in which those recordings were seamlessly available across any device.

When TiVo burst on the scene in 1999, it changed the way millions of people watched TV. Gone were the days of manually setting up a recording on your VCR and then having to wait for a program to finish. Now, by using TiVo's DVR, you could not just...