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Hi I'm having the same problem. 10.99 charged to m bill and my Netflix app signed into someone else's email. I already have a Netflix subscription which I pay for direct. Phoned Virgin and they said they said they would cancel it and refund the 10.99 but they didn't cancel it and I had to go into my account and cancel it myself. After having recording issues with my tivo box I've had this replaced so I've been able to sign out of the other account and sign in with mine but ive not heard anything from Virgin about the refund
Hi, I have this too. My vm email and password was used after a site I used had its data hacked. I have now changed mine but found that netflix was added. If I go into the app on the v6 it is in some foreign language. Netflix need email associated with , which isn't mine. Vm say they can cancel app but netflix will keep billing vm.
I will continue to use it since I still prefer the trickplay controls and PyTiVo. If I lose access I will probably shift half to Plex to replace PyTiVo and the TiVos will be used for current shows and feeding Plex. The day CableCARD or TiVo goes away is more than likely when I dump TV and play catch-up with my Plex library.
It might be time to dump TiVo and cable TV for good and get YouTube TV. But YTTV does not offer all of the channels that my wife watches. Maybe a combined YTTV and Plex setup would be better but not sure.
We have been on the fence last few years really. With Disney +, Hulu, Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, not sure we need Tivo anymore. We just got 2 new LG TVs and WOW, I feel as if I have been living under a rock last 5 years. Those TVs are amazing, you get every app you can dream off when it comes to your streaming needs, all the apps mentioned above, plus YouTube, YouTube Kids, and Xfinity Stream Beta. Sure Xfinity is NOT Tivo, and yes I will missing my ability to skip ads and watch Sports faster but I am willing to make those tiny sacrifices, besides ESPN is getting Bundesliga next season (whenever that happens) and hopefully LG TVs will get ESPN streaming app soon. Either way Tivo is on the chopping block, and I think it is time to pull the plug. Tivo had a chance to remain relevant and they will keep making money through various independent/smaller Cable Companies but I think they lost ability to keep many of us interested anymore.
Dave, just for clarification: I have Fios cable on contract so I will continue with it for the time being. I also have a nvidia shield Pro set up. In order to dump the Tivo and use the Channels DVR to record my cable shows I must also purchase a subscription to Channels Plus and purchase a HDHomeRun? I just want to make sure I understand all the necessary components. And I also understand I must insert a USB drive into the Nvidia Shield Pro to enable the Channels DVR, correct? Am I also correct in assuming that the Channels DVR will also be able to record my streaming shows from the various apps I have installed on the Nvidia? Sorry if I am asking a lot of questions.
If I could talk my DH out of of his TiVo Romario I would. The rest of the house watches on Channels app. I use a WD NAS with Apple TV and Amazon Fire. I use 2 Silicon dust products, one for OTA which has great picture quality and one for Fios Cablecard. As long as I reboot the crappy Verizon router every couple of days Channels works great. To me Channels is worth the expense because it integrates OTA with Fios. I even have access to TV everywhere in the same app. The only other streaming apps I use regularly are Netflix and HBO.
Like you an many others, the pre-roll ads were the last straw. Between UI sluggishness and those dang ads (even though I skip them), it now takes almost ten seconds from the time I press play until my show starts.
Yes I just started youtube tv after the free trial. The interface is a bit more challenging, but since I record tons of programming since they have unlimited DVR and much of the time I can play a recording of the show and skip the commercials. If I am forced to stream it from their library, there may be a few commercials but it is bearable. With my old 10 channel Spectrum bundle, you had little control over commercials. My questions now is what to do with my TIVO roamio device
Imagine if Tivo and Roku had combined somehow. Low priced devices, IP content combined with cable, satellite, and OTA. Recording capability (as storage prices plummeted). All with a great UI, content catelog, and a platform for applications.
I have yet to see (knock on wood) any pre-roll ads, as i am on the old software for all my tivos, except for the Bolt, but the Bolt does not appear to have any ads yet (I did contact them to not have ads).
After a decade I left TiVo last year for Channels DVR. Other than missing the TiVo remote, I have zero regrets and maybe with some creativity a custom remote could be configured. I would suggest people have a look as its really a great option.
I love to download or record old movies (TCM, etc), and edit out the best scenes to a hard drive. Also, fast forward through movies with the Tivo remote. Without Tivo, how can I do these things? Record, fast forward, edit.
I dumped TiVo due to the ads being forced on me. This company is doomed with so many people dumping the subscription service. I now use Channels DVR with OTA and YTTV for cable channels. Both integrate with Channels DVR and everything has commercial skip.
At that point, I will really miss the consistent interface across channels and seamless fast-forwarding / reverse offered by TiVo. The tiny, stuttering FF/REV windows offered by streaming devices are simply awful.
TiVo (/ˈtiːvoʊ/ TEE-voh) is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an on-screen guide of scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose features include "OnePass" schedules which record every new episode of a series, and "WishList" searches which allow the user to find and record shows that match their interests by title, actor, director, category, or keyword. TiVo also provides a range of features when the TiVo DVR is connected to a home network, including film and TV show downloads, advanced search, online scheduling, and at one time, personal photo viewing and local music playback.
Since its launch in its home market of the United States, TiVo has also been made available in Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Taiwan, Spain, and the United Kingdom.[1] Newer models, however, have adopted the CableCARD standard, which is only deployed in the United States, and which limits the availability of certain features.
TiVo was developed by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay through a corporation they named "Teleworld" which was later renamed to TiVo Inc. Though they originally intended to create a home network device, it was redesigned as a device that records digitized video onto a hard disk.
After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1997, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would be released "In Q1", (the last day of which is March 31) despite an estimated 4 to 5 months of work remaining to complete the device. Because March 31, 1999, was a blue moon, the engineering staff code-named this first version of the TiVo DVR "Blue Moon".[2]
The original TiVo DVR digitized and compressed analog video from any source (antenna, cable or direct broadcast satellite). TiVo also integrated its DVR service into the set-top boxes of satellite and cable providers. In late 2000, Philips Electronics introduced the DSR6000, the first DirecTV receiver with an integrated TiVo DVR. This new device, nicknamed the "DirecTiVo", stored digital signals sent from DirecTV directly onto a hard disk.
In early 2000, TiVo partnered with electronics manufacturer Thomson Multimedia (now Technicolor SA) and broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting to deliver the TiVo service in the UK market. This partnership resulted in the Thomson PVR10UK, a stand-alone receiver released in October 2000 that was based on the original reference design used in the United States by both Philips and Sony. TiVo ended UK unit sales in January 2003, though it continued to sell subscriptions and supply guide data to existing subscribed units until June 2011. TiVo branded products returned to the UK during 2010 under an exclusive partnership with cable TV provider Virgin Media.[3]
TiVo was launched in Australia in July 2008 by Hybrid Television Services, a company owned by Australia's Seven Media Group and New Zealand's TVNZ. TiVo Australia also launched a TiVo with a 320Gb hard Drive in 2009.[4] TiVo Australia also launched Blockbuster on demand and in December 2009 launched a novel service called Caspa on Demand.[5] TiVo also went on sale in New Zealand on 6 November 2009.[6]
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl halftime show incident on February 1, 2004, set a record for being the most watched, recorded and replayed moment in TiVo history. The baring of one of Jackson's breasts at the end of her duet with Justin Timberlake, which caused a flood of outraged phone calls to CBS, was replayed a record number of times by TiVo users. A company representative stated, "The audience measurement guys have never seen anything like it. The audience reaction charts looked like an electrocardiogram."[7]
In early February 2024, TiVo removed the antenna version of the TiVo Edge from their website, apparently discontinuing their OTA line of DVRs.[10] The cable version of the TiVo Edge as well as the TiVo Mini LUX and TiVo Stream 4K continue to be available.
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