But even with a Tivo with a subscription, don't you still need the channels available through your cable company to record them?
Or am I missing the whole Tivo concept? -Frank On 1/15/07, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >the only catch was that for the > >rebate you have to sign up for new service with tivo, but it sounds > >like you plan on that anyways... > > There are other options...you can find Tivos on Ebay that have a lifetime > membership on them. With that, you don't need to pay to use it. Not sure > about the current ones, but older Tivos you *could* use as a standalone > recorder and not have to pay for the Tivo membership. You also can buy > stand-alone DVD recorders that basically act like a Tivo. Maybe not as fancy > in terms of features, but still allow you to record TV and play back later. > And there's always a Media PC as well... just all depends on how cheap you > want to go. If I wanted to go pretty cheap, I probably would try to find an > old Tivo with the lifetime subscription on it. But even that will probably > run you a couple hundred dollars....and you never know how long before it > would fail. > > --- Mary Jo > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224796 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
