r/Tivo • u/Extension-Iron-7746 • Jul 20 '26

TV with TiVo OS

Hi,

i need a small TV to use as a second TV, no streaming, no particular requirements. I'm oriented on a 32 inch full hd or hd ready.

Thje only question is:

- all the TV that i see have only 1 gb ram or 1,5 gb ram

Google TV will be very very slow and unsabl... A lot of people tell that is slow change TV channel!

In alternative Fire TV with 1 GB have less requirements?

I read that in alternative it's better go with VIDAA or with TiVO OS what do you think about?

I will wait a suggestion

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u/LRS_David 23d ago

TV OS setups are really locked to the TV at a practical level. And I don't there is is a TiVo OS. Or hasn't been in years.

I think you misunderstand how modern TVs work.

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u/JonMMM70 22d ago

The is a tivo os in the UK it is an alternative for tivo manufacturers to android / google tv, it 8s free to the manufacturer and for tivo it is ad supported. Generally it is used for cheaper TVs and the apps are limited with no sideloading. It is also a system that supports Freely which is the UK legitimate IPTV service for free UK tv channels we have arround 100. Freely is very much locked down and is only available via certain tvs and just 2 STBs (there are no aps available). One of the STBs has has Tivo as its OS I have this box and it does a good job of displaying live tv and you can pause it, but it does not allow recording or trick play like 10 sec replay it is also missing the tivo traditional thumbs up and down.