Tivo

[BigPoppaKev 0]

I hear great things about the tivo. I was looking at prices and as of now you can get a 300 hour tivo for 200 bucks and a life time subscription for 300. So tivo for the rest of your life for 500....my question is for you people that have tivo (or a tivo like device) is it worth my spending 500 bucks on it?

[Guest El Satanico]

as of now you can get a 300 hour tivo for 200 bucks

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Where?

 

 

If you watch alot of TV and/or record from TV alot, then yes it's worth it.

[Placebo Effect 0]

300 hour TiVo???? I didn't know they existed. Mine's only forty hours and I got it for $100.

 

I love how new movies come out and I have no idea they exist, thanks purely to not having to sit through commercials.

[fazzle 0]

I have a Time Warner Cable DVR, and I love the damn thing.

 

But I wouldn't pay $500 for it.

[BigPoppaKev 0]

tivo.com is advertising a 300-hour tivo for 200. that includes sending in a rebate for 150. i might just go with the 40 or 80 hour one because can 300 hours of television be good for you?

[Black Lushus 0]

I've been very hesistant on getting a DVR box through my cable company because, honestly, I rarely have time to watch TV between work and family time, I'd probably record tons of shit but never have a chance to go back and watch it...

[razazteca 0]

Can you hook it up to a DVD Recorder?

[Mole 0]

I believe so.

 

But yes, it is so worth it. I had DVR through Comcast last summer and it was the best thing ever.

[Darthtiki 0]

It's great for replays when watching a ppv. Especially for unintentional comedy bits.

[nl5xsk1 0]

I don't have TiVo (hell, I don't even pay for cable) but most of my friend's do. It's pretty cool to pause a live sporting event to go outside and smoke, and come back 10 or 15 minutes later and resume watching the game without skipping a beat.

[Guest Evolution]

Got a TiVo around the time they were just coming out, and signed up for the lifetime subscription. Made a dent in the wallet of our family, but I still have that TiVo today with the same lifetime subscription. So, if my math is right, I've had it for five years = 60 months at 12.95 month, so I've saved almost 500 dollars by signing up for the lifetime subscription, and I made back my lifetime subscription in about two years of service.

 

So, I'd say if you've got the money and you think you won't upgrade to a new TiVo when it comes out, I'd get the lifetime subscription. I've been sitting on my old TiVo simply because I believe I'd be wasting money upgrading. The worst part about TiVo is that lifetime subscriptions don't carry over.

[Guest El Satanico]

From personal experience, lifetime carries over when replacing a fried unit.

 

A DVR would be great for people with limited TV viewing time. You can quickly watch shows, and can watch two shows in the time it would have taken to watch one.

[teke184 0]

I've got an 80 hour TiVo ($200 after a $100 rebate) and a 40 hour TiVo ($60 instant from CompUSA) and I've been happy with them.

 

 

The fact that I can take video files from the TiVo, send them to my PC, then edit the commercials out and burn them to DVD was a big plus.

 

 

 

It's also helped me on another front, as I have hours of old Saturday Night Live episodes I never moved over to VHS.

 

Having the TiVo has allowed me to record all of the ones I want, as roughly 18 episodes, including repeats, come on E! each week, and that keeps me from having to dig out 10-year old VHS tapes just so I can pull off 3 sketches.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I bought the Directv HD Tivo for $599 - $100 rebate plus some programing credits. Pretty spiffy little device, and the its only $5.99 a month instead of the $12.99 that Tivo charges for standalone models that don't hold as much and cant record HD.

It holds 250 hours of SD programing or 30 hours of HD programing, with 2 tuners (Record 2 shows while watching a recorded programing is awesome). Obly downside is that Directv has locked down all of the ports and stuff, so you cant connect it to a computer/wireless network.

[Dangerous A 0]

Tivo is the only way to watch WWE these days, I'll tell you that much.

[Guest Evolution]

From personal experience, lifetime carries over when replacing a fried unit.

 

A DVR would be great for people with limited TV viewing time. You can quickly watch shows, and can watch two shows in the time it would have taken to watch one.

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Tempting to try and intentionally destroy my current TiVo, but I wouldn't want it to not carry over and then have no TiVo at all.

[Guest El Satanico]

Call the TIVO help desk and ask. That's what I did when mine turned up fried, and the person i spoke to transfered it no problem. Mine was three years old, so a bit of good luck there.

 

The replacement unit fried during set up, and they transferred it again. My second replacement unit has problems with pixelization, it has improved, so i may be replacing for the third time in a week.

[imajackoff? 0]

when i got my dvr via comcast in april i didnt think much of it, but now I couldnt live without the damned thing.