TiVo stream (where you can watch your shows on a iPad in the same house) has been driving me nuts. Every 15 mins I have to restart the setup. Netflix on the other hand works perfectly every time with no interruptions. Is there any company with a decent DVR and cable card reader setup better than TiVo? I had my hopes up that the Xbox one would have a cable card reader but doesn't seem to be in the cards.
I've never used a TiVo, but my setup is a dedicated media server with Plex, a chromecast....and that's it. I store all my media on a small server, and use Plex to interface with it from my laptop or my phone, and stream it to my tv through chromecast. I can watch on my iPad while my partner watches on the tv or whatever.
How do you record / DVR without a cable card reader?
Well, we don't have cable.....Mostly I network with my friends and we all load up our various stuff and then I can stream their catalog, they can stream mine. My ex had this setup as well and he spent months carefully ripping all our DVDs to our Drobo so they were all on the network.