TiVo Bolt Plus Packs 6 Tuners, 3TB of Storage and Skips Ads

TiVo Commodities Plus Packs 6 Tuners, 3TB of Storage and Skips Ads

The latest version of TiVo'due south commercial-skipping Bolt DVR promises to requite you a lot more recorded programming where you can blow past the ads.

Appear today (Sept. 12), TiVo's $499 Bolt+ adds six tuners for recording simultaneous programming and 3TB of storage. The original Bolt, introduced last yr and available in $199 and $299 versions, offered iv tuners and topped out at 1TB of storage.

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The additional tuners and storage bring the new Bolt in line with TiVo's Roamio Pro, which too offered the ability to record 6 programs at once onto the DVR's 3TB of storage. But Commodities+ as well includes the features TiVo introduced with terminal year'due south Bolt model, including the ability to stream 4K content.

In addition to their 4K capabilities, TiVo's Bolt DVR lineup is well-nigh well-known for the SkipMode feature, where you lot can press a button and immediately jump past ads to where the programme y'all're watching resumes. That feature remains limited to programs tagged by TiVo on popular channels and viewing times.

A QuickMode feature lets you lookout a sped-upward version of a show while too adjusting the audio — ideally for when you're watching a game where the activeness's lagging. TiVo'south also touting its OnePass feature for consolidating all episodes of your favorite shows, whether they're available on broadcast TV or through streaming services, and a OneSearch characteristic lets you look upward programming from local, cable and Internet sources.

Concluding year'due south Bolt models came in white. The new Bolt+, which goes on sale Sept. 15, features the same curvy pattern in blackness.

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