In Australia, the service comes with the box, in the US we pay a monthly fee (or higher one-time lifetime fee) to use the tivo service.
Try to find a Australia Number. Keith jristerj wrote: > I am new to this group and would appreciate some advice. I just > purchased a new TiVo HD DVR. The Start here booklet that came with the > TiVo says to activate the TiVo service, which is available free of > charge from www.tivo.com.au/activate. When I try to do this, my TSN is > not reconised and they say to call a US number which wants 12 something > a month for the TiVo service. Is this something everyone has to pay or > should I have gotten some kind of free service with the new TiVo? I am > not trying to cheat but don't want to pay for something I don't have to. > > jristerj > >
