Tivo
 

Anyone got it?

Well I saw this about it, there dropping the life plan service....doesn't sound like tivo is going to be that good in the future...

http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/tivo-t...tion-only.html

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/08/2357213.shtml

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how does this work with the providers? We got a free box with Direct TV and pay $5 a month for it - which is well worth it!

I love the Tivo and wouldnt be without it - although other DVRs are offering many of the same features now.

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We have the cable company's equivalent to Tivo. No money down, approx $6 per month, any problems they come out and fix it or replace it. I think its a better deal all round.

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sounds like the same deal we have with Direct TV but its a Tivo. Wanted is cos it was the only one to do season pass (that was available to us) at the time - but most of them do that now i believe. Also the Dish one lets you play back in any room! How cool?

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Damn, we pay much more than that.... more like $15 per month if we want a DVR. Cable companies are raking it in, like the phone companies of old.

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That does sound good we can only play back on one TV, but we can record 2 channels at the same time.

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Damn, can't one of these companies licence the TiVo GUI?

I don't like having something I have to rent forever. That's the same way telephone companies used to rip people off. You had a very limited choice of phones, you paid rent every month, and you never owned the damned thing.

Would everyone like to go back to that plan? I wouldn't! :eek:

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That's why tivo isn't doing so well, they have to work up a deal with the cable companies...

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That's the only way they can make money, and it's not working the long haul is it...

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http://www.makezine.com/extras/4.html

Interesting to the more techie readers

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tivo can be hacked to buggery too, which is nice...get linux on it and do loads of extra stuff...after the warranty is over with of course :D

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Comcast is allegedly in the market for putting Tivo's front end onto their DVR (costs $10/month in my area). We have two Tivos at the moment and wouldn't be without them.

Vive la Tivo!

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I've just installed Tivo at home after finding out that our local company (Charter) were not setting up any new subsciptions to their own DVR system because of high demand (craziest thing I ever heard). The DVR through charter would have cost $20 a month. I bought a 40GB re-conditioned Tivo box from Tivo, complete with 12 months subscription for $155. The only thing I'm a bit annoyed about is the fact that I have to go out and buy extra cables in order to be able to watch 1 channel while recording another !!... I though that was what Tivo did so I'm a bit annoyed that I'll have to pay extra for additional cables.

Other than that I'm pretty happy with how Tivo is working out.

Mark :)

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Another vote for the Disg $5 a month. Had a friend over the other night who had not seen it, so has signed up and we get a credit.

Need to check but I think you are on a 24 month contract, which we have nearly completed. Will hang on to it, but keep in mind we can always switch to Direct TV if we need to.

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Trouble is we are tied to the cable company's broadband as our local phone company can't be arsed to provide DSL to us.

By the time you pay the broadband, it's cheaper to use the cable television vs satellite. Then when you do THAT, you're tied to their crappy Scientific Atlanta box.

If I can't own it and take it apart and hack on it, I don't want it. :D

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I must check my typing...

Anyway, our neigbours moved from Dish, there typed it correctly, went Cable for the Package price, but their service and signal I can only describe as crap, TV particularly.

The Dish DVR works great, we have one of these and a normal double receiver. You can always buy them as well, e bay has them used if you want to play around.

We did need 2 dishes, but there was only a few channels missing from the main satellite, and it was a freebie.

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If u google TIVO you can also find a site where u can BUILD your own to your own speck, besides havcking them to buggery!. ;)

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my tivo doesn't require monthly subscription :p

i only had to pay the hardware cost which was about $80


only limitation is that the guide only goes a few days in advance but its easy enough to manually put in automatically recurring shows....

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lucky git :p
though that's what the story was about, them stopping that service in the future...

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I actually don't have a lifetime subscription, just a tivo that doesnt need a subscription :beer:

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We purchased a lifetime subscription for our Tivo and paid $299 for the service as hubby couldn't see the sense in paying the service fee each month.
The subscription is actually a product lifetime subscription and apparently only covers the machine we have. So if we decide to upgrade when Tivo comes up with a product that records HDTV programs, the subscription we have doesn't cover the upgrade. Doesn't make sense to me :confused: Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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yeah, your buggered...though i'm sure there are other alternatives to tivo box...well there are ain't there...2 or 3 other companies do a box like tivo...

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how did you wangle that then?

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But how about the service ? We are with comcast.

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some toshiba tivos just came with a slightly cut down version, like not having the season pass functionality, but very little else is removed.

since we mainly use it for pausing live tv to make a cuppa and then fast-forwarding through the ads ti works great.

very simple to set up repeat boradcastings etc yourself, just no season pass.

i will be annoyed if it ever gives up the ghost

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:rolleyes: Here ya go Bud............... :D



http://tivo.hackaday.com/

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wouldn't have a clue...big one against tivo would be ReplayTV, don't know if there better, they use to be until they got slapped for removing adverts and shite...

as for boxes, RCA Scenium DRS7000N Digital Media Recorder, it's a DVR/DVD player, gets the tv listing straight from the hidden broadcast signal...buy the box and your good to go, HDTV sorted....it's good because you don't need a phone jack, it plugs straight into your cable...shite if your a sat user though...

Panasonic's DMR-HS2 is pretty, and it has a DVD recorder, which is nice...can burn shite from the hard drive that you recorded...but the major suck about it, no tv listing I don't think, it relies on the old fashion tv code number listings from those printed guides...but it's good to back up your vhs...it is also a one off fee...