TIVO blowout supersale. $50 Tivo, $250 LIFETIME!

[primestar31]

I bought my Tivo Roamio with the money I got for selling the free PS/4 I got from Dish for referring 4 people!

So Dish PAID me to drop them, lol!

 

[boba]

I wish DISH had customer service as good as TiVo. I ordered yesterday and because I was close enough to the Fort Worth fulfillment center UPS delivered it before noon today(Fri.). It is similar enough to my old TiVo there was virtually no learning curve. Surprisingly the new RF remote also operated my series 3 but my series 3 remote doesn't operate my Roamio.

I made 3 calls (CHATS) to Dish and finally on the 3rd chat got someone with some brains she referred me to retention. Retention was great at offering free movie channels and $10 off but couldn't give me a reason to stay with DISH.

 

[Mr Tony]

Surprisingly the new RF remote also operatedmy series 3 but my series 3 remote doesn't operate my Roamio.

The roamio only runs off rf but can be used as an ir remote for other units. There is a way to change the remote address so they won't clash like that. I'd have to search for it. But it is rather easy if I remember right

 

[Mr Tony]

Its an old link but it works

https://forums.tivo.com/pe/action/forums/displaypost?postID=10287456

 

[jayn_j]

The roamio only runs off rf but can be used as an ir remote for other units. There is a way to change the remote address so they won't clash like that. I'd have to search for it. But it is rather easy if I remember right

Can't be totally correct. I am using my Harmony 1 to control my Roamio 4 tuner and it is IR only.

 

[osu1991]

Roaming will work off ir or rf.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Tapatalk

 

[Mr Tony]

I goofed. The roamio can be used with ir. The default is rf but can be changed

 

[lparsons21]

Can't be totally correct. I am using my Harmony 1 to control my Roamio 4 tuner and it is IR only.

Correct. The Roamio remote is RF but it will work just fine with an IR universal.

 

[Mr Tony]

Correct. The Roamio remote is RF but it will work just fine with an IR universal.

The roamio remote is both. When I got mine it controlled both the roamio and series 3....until I switched the address

 

[lparsons21]

I didn't know that. Thanks.

 

[Claude Greiner]

I have bought several Tivos and always used to buy lifetime.

The last Tivo I bought was a Romario which I'm paying $9.99 monthly service on.

I have never benefited by buying lifetime. I always end up upgrading and loosing the lifetime sub.

I would only buy lifetime if they agreed to transfer it.

Come to think of it, everything I bought lifetime for from skyangel to the displayer lifetime (3 year) service I have never gotten a benefit of more than s few years.

 

[boba]

I have bought several Tivos and always used to buy lifetime.

The last Tivo I bought was a Romario which I'm paying $9.99 monthly service on.

I have never benefited by buying lifetime. I always end up upgrading and loosing the lifetime sub.

I would only buy lifetime if they agreed to transfer it.

Come to think of it, everything I bought lifetime for from skyangel to the displayer lifetime (3 year) service I have never gotten a benefit of more than s few years.

Unlike you Claude I have been very satisfied with TiVo lifetime. In the process of buying the latest Roamio the CSR informed me my Series 1 was 15 years old and I still have it. My series 3 is 7 years and 1 month old, still working. I don't buy to resell I buy to use and my TiVos have been very reliable. I did upgrade the series 1 hard drive because it was so small but not because of a problem.

 

[Mr Tony]

I wish I could have got lifetime on my Roamio OTA when I got it (when it first came out last September). My Series 3 has lifetime on it

 

[primestar31]

I see people selling their Channel Master DVR+ on Ebay for top dollar (sucker born every minute), and defecting over to Tivo! lol

It's funny because of the rabid DVR+ users on AVS, that go nuts if anybody posts anything in the DVR+ thread about a Tivo...

 

[Mr Tony]

It's funny because of the rabid DVR+ users on AVS, that go nuts if anybody posts anything in the DVR+ thread about a Tivo...

exactly! There are some people will drop $250 on a DVR+ with no hard drive or wifi yet balks at $300 for a Tivo that has both

 

[MikeD-C05]

exactly! There are some people will drop $250 on a DVR+ with no hard drive or wifi yet balks at $300 for a Tivo that has both

They are known as "penny wise and pound foolish".

 

[Mr Tony]

Then there are people on there who just despise tivo no matter if they even gave it to them for free with free service

 

[foghorn2]

Then there are people on there who just despise tivo no matter if they even gave it to them for free with free service

Whats a Tivo?


I'm getting a Bolt!

 

[foghorn2]

They are known as "penny wise and pound foolish".

I know, like those who are still with Dish

 

[jegrant]

I have to admit I was somewhat interested in the DVR+ but it seems like it's very lacking in the apps and streaming department, and of course is OTA only. Besides that I feel like Channel Master hasn't done that well with their free Linear TV streams. They took a long time to get it going, which I assumed was because they were signing contracts, acquiring rights to programming, etc. and then when it launched, it didn't seem like it actually had hardly any of the promised channels, and it didn't seem to stay "on air" very long.