I have been out of town... and missed this conversation... the responses
were off track.
The TiVo lifetime contract is a gamble... $300 and no monthly payments,
but only for the lifetime of your DVR. TiVo currently only offers lifetime
contracts for the newer HD DVR's (Series 3) (works with
How does this apply to contracts for a limited time period rather than lifetime?
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been out of town... and missed this conversation... the responses
were off track.
The TiVo lifetime contract is a gamble... $300 and
So if I replace the box, I can stay within the existing contract, even
if I go to HD? Sorry if my original question was not well phrased.
I have read on the tivocommunity.com site that they sometimes will let
you roll over your contract to a new box.
We have gone for a while with no contract, just monthly payments (at
full freight). I would like to set up a contract, but before doing
so, I would like to know what would happen if our current box were to
fail or become woefully obsolete (I am assuming it can't handle HD)
before the end of the
You are responsible for the box.
I have two series 2's.
Stewart
At 07:51 AM 10/15/2008, you wrote:
We have gone for a while with no contract, just monthly payments (at
full freight). I would like to set up a contract, but before doing
so, I would like to know what would happen if our
So if I replace the box, I can stay within the existing contract, even
if I go to HD? Sorry if my original question was not well phrased.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are responsible for the box.
I have two series 2's.
Depends on your contract with them and you will have to talk to them.
I bought my first box on a years contract, at a discount. After that
I go month to month. I bought my second box on the secondary market
(Red Ebay) and am strictly on a month to month contract with it.
I am not sure what
Does TIVO work with Comcast? I have two DVRs that have pretty much been
turned into recording units with mimimal TV functionality since they
moved all the channels up to the 100 plus range and required the boxes
to decode the signal.
mike
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Depends on your
TiVo most definitely works with Comcast. I just got a new set-top box
(non-HD) from Comcast and set up our existing TiVo to work with it. I
had previously done the same at a friend's house.
Two things to know:
1.) You will need to attach two IR transmitters to your Comcast box
which allow the
I get the feeling that Cable companies are trying to break Tivo's
hold on recording TV programs by requiring the set top boxes.
You would have to check with your local cable company and Tivo for that answer.
Stewart
At 10:36 AM 10/15/2008, you wrote:
Does TIVO work with Comcast? I have two
Modern Series 3 TiVos have slots two cable cards which will allow it to tune
your cable system as if you were using a set top box and I believe that the
cable companies are required by the feds to offer them if requested. You
may need to ask a few times but they should have them. There is a dual
Apparently some set-top boxes provided by satellite companies accept a
serial connection from the TiVo by which they can be tuned. Why
satellite supports this, but not cable, I don't know (some subtle
difference in the business model?).
I don't know about FiOS, however I believe the DVR comes
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, John Emmerling [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Apparently some set-top boxes provided by satellite companies accept a
serial connection from the TiVo by which they can be tuned. Why
satellite supports this, but not cable, I don't know (some subtle
difference in the
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