I recently had the opportunity to learn more about TiVo’s award-winning remote control when I met with their Senior Director of Consumer Engineering Paul Newby, father of the TiVo remote.

After doing some research on the TiVo remote control protocol, he came up with some code for the Arduino using the IRLib2 library that would brute force the KidZone passcode by sending the ...

The remote is excellent and works via RF, so you can hide the box behind a cabinet. And the hardware itself is compact, sleek and silent. Even so, the entry-level TiVo Roamio ($200 list price ...

As for TiVo’s remote, it remains aggressively chunky with too many extraneous buttons (TiVo’s recommendations don’t even utilize the thumbs-up and -down buttons anymore), but the TiVo Edge ...

As I noted above, the Apple TV and its TV app offer a similar redundancy, but at least you can reprogram Apple’s remote and hide its TV app at the bottom of your screen. On the Tivo Stream 4K ...

Oh, the face. Yeah, the TiVo guy on the front of the Roamio doesn't have one, which is odd since he isn't faceless on the remote. The other newsworthy additions are the touch-sensitive power ...

TiVo's remote control has had the same figure-eight design for quite some time, but it's time to try something new. The buttons on this bulbous, heavy remote are impractically laid out.

The box itself is nothing special. It's the smarter software and new pack-in remote with voice controls that finally bring TiVo into the modern era. If you've ever used a Fire TV with Alexa Voice ...

Of course, you also get the same upgraded peanut remote. One of the best features, carried over from the Roamio, is Tivo's search, which integrates results from both the TV guide and the various ...

When entered via the TiVo remote control, these keystrokes turn the "skip to beginning" and "skip to end" keys into "skip back about 10 seconds" and "skip forward 30 seconds" buttons. It took me ...

You can use your phone for setup, too, if you prefer that over the remote. The TiVo Stream 4K gives you all the power of Android TV, with some unique TiVo-inspired additions. If you know your way ...