On Oct 12, 2010, at 3:44 PM, William Ehrich wrote:
What do you get for a TiVo subscription? Is it like the TV Guide subscription that is offered with EyeTV? When I first read about TiVo etc I thought that it could record a scheduled program if the program was delayed (like when the preceding football game lasted longer than scheduled) rather than just recording the scheduled time slot. Can it? Is it just a license to use the device? What happens if you stop paying?
It would still function, but would lose all of the "intelligence" that makes it work so well. You could no longer search for shows by title or keyword (since it would have no current guide). It wouldn't be able to do season passes. It wouldn't know when a show's timeslot has been moved and be able to adjust accordingly. You wouldn't be able to program it remotely via the web. Basically all you could do would be to set up strict scheduled recording (Ch. 44 on Tuesday at 3:00). Wouldn't really be worth owning without the subscription.
I've looked at lot of the alternatives but keep realizing how happy we are with Tivo. There's still nothing that really comes close. Plus we can use it to access our netflix, amazon movies, pandora, web-based video podcasts, youtube, plus our networked iTunes and iPhoto libraries. And with PyTivoX running on a Mac elsewhere in the house, I can download any movie off the net (torrents) and have them transcoded and played to the tivo in real time. It's a pretty awesome device.
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