{"id":791,"date":"2010-03-12T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=791"},"modified":"2010-03-12T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:02:49","slug":"current-tivo-service-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2010\/03\/current-tivo-service-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Current TiVo Service Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of the announcement of the TiVo Premiere<\/a>, we thought this would be a good time to recap the various service plans available at TiVo!<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

At WeaKnees, we really recommend the lifetime service option (PLS, or Product Lifetime Service) for your TiVo DVR. At $399 for your first unit (and less for additional units – see below) this pays for itself in 31 months versus the monthly plan option at $12.95.<\/p>\n

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TiVo Service Plans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Compared to the Annual service plan, the Product Lifetime plan pays for itself in just over three years. You just have to come up with the $399 up front. But if you’re considering Lifetime, make sure you don’t pay for any monthly service first; that money would just be wasted.<\/p>\n

Another benefit of Lifetime Service is that, since it’s tied to that box, it’s transferable. So if you decide, down the road, to upgrade to a newer TiVo, you can sell the old one with the lifetime attached. In many cases, that’s what makes the upgrade to a new box financially viable.<\/p>\n

Next, for existing customers with TiVo DVRs, or for customers activating more than one DVR, the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth DVR on one account qualify for discounted service – called MSD or Multi Service Discount.<\/p>\n

So instead of the pricing as above, these second-through-sixth TiVo DVRs (on the same account, at the same address) qualify for $100 off Product Lifetime Service and other discounted options:<\/p>\n

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TiVo Multi-Service Discount (MSD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We make the same argument here that lifetime service is worthwhile, for the same reasons. Again, the lifetime option pays for itself in about 30 months, versus the monthly option.<\/p>\n

So how do you activate your new TiVo DVR? Click over to TiVo!<\/strong><\/a>\"\"<\/strong> and choose the “Activate a TiVo box” link on the very bottom left of the homepage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of the announcement of the TiVo Premiere, we thought this would be a good time to recap the various service plans available at TiVo! At WeaKnees, we really recommend the lifetime service option (PLS, or Product Lifetime Service) for your TiVo DVR. At $399 for your first unit (and less for additional units […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}