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School me on TiVo

DH and I have been trying to find an alternative to the ever-climbing cost of our cable bill. I was looking through the Best Buy circular today and saw a description of TiVo. It seems like a possibility. If you have it - how does it work? Is there a subscription fee? How is the picture quality and reliability?

Re: School me on TiVo

  • You'll still need a cable/satellite to use TiVo, I believe. It still needs an input - it just records whatever is coming into it.  There is a small charge to use a DVR (ours is like $5/mo I think).
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  • Yep, TiVo can only record channels you already pay for. We loved it when we had it, but got rid of it because we upgraded our cable and had On Demand. I actually like TiVo better because it always worked. A few of the shows we watch aren't on On Demand. 
     
    Picture quality is whatever you pay for with cable. I know the newer TiVo boxes will record on your HD channels where the old ones wouldn't. You pretty much pick your shows to watch, you can record entire seasons so you don't need to remember all week. And you can scroll thru movies. The nice thing I remember is you could input Lucille Ball for example and it would record all shows or movies with Lucille Ball in it. 
     
    Hope that helps! 
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  • I love our TiVo!! We have the HD version to record our HD channels..

    The HD version is also a Netflix instant stream player so we watch a lot of Netflix on it as well..

  • Picture is great, reliability is great, searchability and recording are great.  It's not cheap, however.  You'll wind up paying more for Tivo than you will for your cable-provided DVR for the first few years you own it.

    First, you have to buy a box ($100-$400 depending on model from what I remember).  Then, you pay for service.  When we bought ours a year ago, the options were to buy a lifetime subscription for $400 or pay $18 monthly or pay for a year for $200.  

  • Directv with DVR. I've been a Directv subscriber for 10+ years, and wouldn't go back to cable unless my life depended on it.
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