So, you purchased that lifetime TiVo subscription but want one of those
shiny new Series 3 boxes. TiVo has you covered -- kind of. It is going to cost you a mere $199 one-time fee (
heard that before) to transfer over your Series 1 or Series 2 subscription. There is a catch though. It looks like the new TiVo needs to be purchased before December 31st and the transfer has to happen before January 31, 2007. That old box isn't going to be rendered useless though as TiVo will endow upon it one year of service for free. Awful nice of them considering you spend at least $299 for the lifetime on the older TiVo, $800 on the new box and $199 to transfer the original lifetime subscription. You would think that for $800 bucks they would throw in the transfer but they do have all those
legal fees to deal with.
posted Sep 8th 2006 5:52PM
So TiVo now has a system that you pay for a lifetime subscription and you then have to pay to keep it everytime you get a new box. Interesting. No one ever said TiVo was cheap.
Thanks Tivo for a great product, but you are "out of my budget". I'll just keep my series 3 with lifetime subscription and rent an HD DVR from Comcast for less than $10/month. I imagine as soon as this so called "deal" is over, we'll start seeing the price for the Tivo HD coming down. Tivo has a great product, but who wants to "float a loan" to record a tv program???
I think TiVo will have some serious competition coming when Vista comes out with Cablecard-certification products from microsoft partners. Anyone will then be able to turn their PC into a pseudo-TiVo ans escape the sucker-like blood-letting of the TiVo leech.
"Please, sir, may I loose the leech?"
But GhostDoggy, TiVos rarely crash, unlike say, Windows Media Center, Vista edition or not. There's also no viruses, spyware, adware, or trojans on the TiVo platform to worry about either. Advantage? TiVo.