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kitten smoothie posted:I've been emailed a one-time use promo code that gets you "$50 off TiVo Roamio (regularly $199.99), $100 off Roamio Plus (regularly $399.99), $200 off Roamio Pro (regularly $599.99), and $75 off TiVo Mini (regularly $99.99)." Better deal is to go to bestbuy, PM amazon $149.99 and then you also get a $50 gift card (on the base roamio)
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Don Lapre posted:Better deal is to go to bestbuy, PM amazon $149.99 and then you also get a $50 gift card (on the base roamio) welp that makes that easy.
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Qwijib0 posted:heh, got the same email (you also a monthly survey-taker?). My TivoHD is about to bite it so I will probably upgrade to a roamio, cause it's still ~10/mo cheaper than the cable DVR even with the cablecards and tivo fee. If I only get 2 years out of it I still win, and I sitll feel like supporting the company. They issued a statement that sort of refutes killing hardware, but not really. Honestly though, software/services is the future for everyone, with IPTV, cable gateways, etc. quote:TiVo shot back tonight at a Wired report claiming that recent layoffs mean the company is exiting the hardware business. "It's not right to say that TiVo's out of the hardware business," VP of corporate communications Steve Wymer tells The Verge. "We're just as fired up as consumers are about the Roamio and we expect to deliver on that for years to come. It's one of our core businesses and our shining jewel." http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/22/5336648/tivo-refutes-rumors-says-hardware-is-a-core-business
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Jan 23, 2014 06:38
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Don Lapre posted:Better deal is to go to bestbuy, PM amazon $149.99 and then you also get a $50 gift card (on the base roamio) Wait so $100 basically??
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Jan 23, 2014 06:48
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PaganGoatPants posted:Wait so $100 basically?? Yes.
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Oof, now that's pretty tempting. Makes me wonder if my lust for the Plus is worth it over the base.
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Jan 23, 2014 19:38
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If you want 6 tuners and streaming that kind of works (and a ludicrous amount of storage) then yes. Otherwise, no.
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Dogen posted:If you want 6 tuners and streaming that kind of works (and a ludicrous amount of storage) then yes. Otherwise, no. It's worth noting that the tivo OS runs on separate storage now, so you can buy the base, and throw in any HDD up to 3TB and on boot it will just format it for use.
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I just wish the base model could stream to Mini's without any extra hardware, that's far more valuable to me than streaming or extra tuners.
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sanchez posted:I just wish the base model could stream to Mini's without any extra hardware, that's far more valuable to me than streaming or extra tuners. Base roamio can talk to minis without hardware. You just need stream if you want to watch on iDevices.
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I think the lack of moca bridge was the problem, but the price gap is so huge between the base and next tier now that it'd be worth buying a standalone one.
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Are the minis worth it? I have a Roamio plus now for my living room. I was debating getting a mini with for my second TV, but I have an old 2 tuner Premiere that I'm using currently. I guess other than the $8 cable card fee from Comcast that I'd be saving, is there any reason to ditch the Premiere for the mini? I don't really need to record in my bedroom. But I haven't heard great things about the mini.
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Hermi On Me posted:Are the minis worth it? I have a Roamio plus now for my living room. I was debating getting a mini with for my second TV, but I have an old 2 tuner Premiere that I'm using currently. I guess other than the $8 cable card fee from Comcast that I'd be saving, is there any reason to ditch the Premiere for the mini? I don't really need to record in my bedroom. But I haven't heard great things about the mini. Dont you have to pay monthly for the mini's? edit: yep, $6/m /w 1year commitment.
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Hermi On Me posted:Are the minis worth it? I have a Roamio plus now for my living room. I was debating getting a mini with for my second TV, but I have an old 2 tuner Premiere that I'm using currently. I guess other than the $8 cable card fee from Comcast that I'd be saving, is there any reason to ditch the Premiere for the mini? I don't really need to record in my bedroom. But I haven't heard great things about the mini. The service fee for the mini is less ($6 vs ~$11 with the MSD) and the mini can watch shows recorded with the "copy never" flag from premium channels (though I think MRV from a roamio to a premiere will also stream now instead of copying). I have only briefly touched a mini but mine gets here tuesday so I guess I'll find out. $175 for a mini with lifetime was too good a deal, and the call center also transferred my ancient $10.99/mo TivoHD contract to the Roamio so with the great bby deal (thanks Don Lapre!) I went from single room 2 tuner to multi-room 4 tuner with double the storage for $275 up front with no change to my monthly fee. The UI on the roamio is so much more usable too, channel surfing is a thing I can do again!
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I use minis on two of our tvs, over ethernet, and they work great. Overall pretty happy with the implementation, although it consumes two of my tuners on my main box, but thats ok. Havent had any problems with people streaming at the same time or all the tvs being on. Its a great service, for what equates to, cheaper than a standard HD cable box through our cable provider.
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Dogen posted:How's the menu speed on them? Seems the same as the main unit. It takes an extra second or two when changing channels, probably due to having to get it and stream from the main box.
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Jan 26, 2014 04:58
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I would be very tempted to replace our upstairs Premiere 4 with one, the slow interface on it makes me mad but we don't really need a full unit up here to record the daily show and the morning news that would justify getting another Roamio.
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Bought a base Roamio and a 3 tb hard drive. Currently I have a Tivo HD with an external drive. Anyone know if I'll need a Cablecard in each Tivo to do a transfer of the shows? Is the transfer done over the network, or is it done through the eSATA connection?
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KaLogain posted:Bought a base Roamio and a 3 tb hard drive. Currently I have a Tivo HD with an external drive. The eSATA drive is 'married' to the internal drive-- if you separate them, you lose all recordings. You won't need a cablecard to transfer shows with MRV over the network, but they will both need to be active on your tivo account. You also won't be able to transfer shows with a CCI byte of 0x02 (depending on your cable operator this will be everything but limited basic, or it may only be premiums) I don't think it's yet possible to use MFSLive to transfer recordings to roamios yet by hooking all 3 drives to a PC, the disk partitioning changed with series 5 tivos (which is why it's so easy to upgrade them). Qwijib0 fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Qwijib0 posted:The eSATA drive is 'married' to the internal drive-- if you separate them, you lose all recordings. You won't need a cablecard to transfer shows with MRV over the network, but they will both need to be active on your tivo account. You also won't be able to transfer shows with a CCI byte of 0x02 (depending on your cable operator this will be everything but limited basic, or it may only be premiums) Alright thanks, I knew the issue with the external drive, I just wanted to make sure I didn't have to do that to do the transfer.
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Holy crap, I just realized that Youtube enabled casting to Tivos just like they support for Chromecast. When did that happen?
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My Roamio did that out of the box and it was the first time I noticed it. Maybe the software update from around then?
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Krailor posted:Holy crap, I just realized that Youtube enabled casting to Tivos just like they support for Chromecast. When did that happen? Does your roamio stay synced with youtube? After I leave the youtube app on the roamio after pairing, if I open it again, I lose the cast button on youtube players until I re-pair, and replace the paired tivo in the device list of my youtube account.
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TiVo has a promo going on right now for up to $75 by playing a little game. I got $50 off and it might be enough for me to finally pull the trigger on one of these units. Especially since they now have built in wifi.
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I'm selling my Tivo HD with lifetime, wireless N adaptor and DVR expander. What do you think a fair price for that is? They seem to be going $200-250 on ebay but I want to sell locally and avoid boxing and shipping all that stuff. I might "list" it on cragslist at $275 and grudgingly let myself get haggled down to $200-225. p.s. if you're in the SF bay and interested let me know.
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I am wondering the same thing except for a lifetimed original Premiere and WiFi adapter. I'm trying to decide whether to sell it or to hang onto it if I end up getting cable again in the next year or two. Seems like a lifetimed unit has a fairly high price floor on it even if it's old.
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After using a TWC DVR for 2 weeks I just couldn't take it anymore, and not to mention I also wasn't using any of the features (on demand) I decided to get a Roamio. After taxes and whatever, it came to almost the same price as Amazon so I just got it on Amazon instead. Here is a 75$ off coupon: YF03037755 Enjoy. Straithate fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Mar 26, 2014 |
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Just a TWC hint with on demand and their horrible piece of poo poo boxes, if you have internet service with them (You probably should, it's the only thing that they do that doesn't suck) they have a free Roku app that lets you stream all of the channels but broadcast live in HD as well as access on demand. Rokus only cost $50 with no monthly fee for the box or the app. I have a TiVo in my living room but Rokus ended up being the perfect solution for the TVs in my bedroom and kitchen.
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The TiVo spring update is coming in the next few weeks, oddly nothing has really been said about what it is in it but I have my fingers crossed for some sort of PPV VOD service that does not completely suck. I don't care if it is a fully functional Amazon app instead of their poo poo one or any other service. As always there is a priority list, put your service number in here and you will be one of the first in the normally weeks long staggered rollouts. http://www.tivo.com/priority_20_4_1
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Got Comcast On-Demand on my Roamio, pretty much The Happiest Boy now. Now just bake me VOD, bitches. I've tried some basic Googling but haven't turned anything up - will a straight clone of the internal drive work for an upgrade? I have a Plus that's just about filled up, and I don't want to lose any recordings, and I don't want to have an external drive.
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An interesting question. I know now that you can slap (almost, think there's problems over 3 gigs?) any old drive in there and it will "just work," because I think the system stuff is on flash storage and can format new drives? Whether or not you can clone a drive to a larger drive and expand the partition and have it work without reformatting is the question, I guess.
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Deathlove posted:Got Comcast On-Demand on my Roamio, pretty much The Happiest Boy now. Now just bake me VOD, bitches. From what I have read on the Tivo Community forums, you cannot just clone the drive. It is not in a format that is readable by any software that does cloning.
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Wiggly posted:From what I have read on the Tivo Community forums, you cannot just clone the drive. It is not in a format that is readable by any software that does cloning. Well, that's bad news. How am I supposed to preserve my recordings, then? Transfer all of them to a third drive, install new drive, then transfer back? Transferring them off my S3 took forever, I don't even want to think about this. Ugh. TIVO.  Guess I'll give this http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/tivo_upgrade/ a try just for a laugh; even if it fails, I've got the original I can just slot back in and figure out another way later. Deathlove fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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Just to follow up, the above method doesn't work - the rescue disk doesn't even recognize a TiVo drive has been hooked to the machine. So, back to square one - maybe ddrescue will work, but trying something that'll take four-six hours on Game of Thrones Day is not something I want to risk.
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TiVo Person posted:We will begin updating TiVo Roamio, TiVo Premiere, and TiVo Mini boxes with 20.4.1 "Spring Update" later today. So nothing, blah, hopefully we will see major progress with the summer update but I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.
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Alright, so this is weird but I just got an email from the Tivo store about an order for a slide remote with adapter that cost $0.00. I figured it was bullshit, but I logged onto my account and there's this order with a price of $0.00. Of course I changed my password right away and I don't have a credit card on file with Tivo since I bought the box with lifetime service from eBay so I've never directly paid TiVo for anything, so there's no way they can charge my card since they don't have it, but what the gently caress? Has anyone heard of them just shipping something like this out for no reason? I took some survey recently about new features which supposedly entered me in a contest to win an Amazon gift certificate, but there wasn't any talk about getting a new remote out of the deal. I mean, I'll call them about it but thought I should check here if anyone's had something like this happen before since they're closed right now.
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Ev posted:Alright, so this is weird but I just got an email from the Tivo store about an order for a slide remote with adapter that cost $0.00. Just got an email, too. Seems to be happening to quite a few people: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=516933
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MrNonacho posted:Just got an email, too. Seems to be happening to quite a few people:
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I normally use Airplay for Pandora but I randomly decided to run Pandora on my Roamio and whoa, when did it stop looking like the old TiVo poo poo interface and instead look all sleek and not terrible?
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