Comments on: New TiVo Service Pricing

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:02:42 +0000

I really don’t think it’s possible to move or clone a lifetime unit. The service is the bread and butter of TiVo’s product, and TiVo, rightly-so, keeps people from being able to monkey with it.

By: Tivo Guy

Tivo Guy — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:33:49 +0000

As to the swallowing of lifetime subscription price. The subscriptions is for the lifetime of the box, not the owner. So if your 10 year old series 1 keeps kicking along kudos. you’ve gotten your money out of it. I bought a used series 2 for $175 with lifetime and I broke even 6 months ago. I’ve since updated the drive to a 500 and plan to do another 500 as a dual drive. I have back up power supplies from other series 2′s incase it fails. The bottom line is if the main board cooks, you lose lifetime subscription. I was told once that it was possible to clone the lifetime part of the board and tell an HD tivo it’s a series 2 but I have not yet found the answers to that while searching.

By: LANCE

LANCE — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:38:33 +0000

My TIVO HD no longer functions correctly & is out of warranty. TIVO says I can exchange it for a refurbished one for $149 & keep my lifetime.

By: moxi lover

moxi lover — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:07:30 +0000

I had 2 tivo’s with lifetime service and both broke before 2 years and would have to buy a 3rd lifetime subscription. (ripoff, payed $800.00 for 3 years subscription)
I decided to buy a moxi with has no subscription fees…
I love it better then tivo and will never go back.

Question: does your service offer a hard drive upgrade for moxi as it only has a 500 gb drive. I know I can plug in a bigger one but I like it to be internal.

By: DDodge

DDodge — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:13:58 +0000

We have owned our series 1 for at least 7 years. We bought it used with lifetime already activated. We upgraded the drive a few years ago with a wk drive. We never registered with tivo online, so it seems we are not eligible for upgrade offers. 2 questions. How do we register an existing account and would that jeopardize our lifetime status? Would its original in-service date apply? It may well be prior to Jan ’01.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:38:35 +0000

DS: I agree, but it’s only a ripoff because they call it “lifetime” service. If they billed it as “Pay-once” or something it would be easier to swallow. At around $13/month that gets you around 2 1/2 years of service; after that point you’ve gotten a good deal. we’ve had our tivo for 5 yrs so even though the non-transferability is frustrating, it’s still been a good deal.

By: DS

DS — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:54:57 +0000

I’d like to clarify something about the lifetime membership. Is it correct that it’s for the lifetime of the TIVO box,not the person who owns it? So, if the box fails, you have no lifetime membership, since it does not transfer to a news box, and you must either re-purchase a lifetime with a new box, or default to another sort of paid plan? Seems like a ripoff to me if that is the case.

If i have this wrong, please let me know what the deal is. Thanks.

By: M West

M West — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:46:15 +0000

not unless it was online prior to Jan (not sept.) 2001 according to the tivo rep I just talked to. My sony series one went online in spring 2001. darn. (but the unit still works) ~m

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:36:05 +0000

If I have a very old tivo (2000) with a lifetime service agreement, is it possible to transfer that to a new HD tivo?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:31:05 +0000

Well, I really don’t know that to be the case, but the warranty on most of these is only six months anyway, so that would only apply to a small percentage of units.