Transfer Your TiVo Lifetime Service To A Series 3 Box For $199

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The incentives that made the switch decision final were new features from TiVo. They launched the lower-priced TiVo HD, they enabled Multi-Room Viewing and TiVoToGo features for moving shows around, and they re-offered Lifetime subscriptions for the TiVo service.

Transfer Your TiVo Lifetime Service to a Series 3 Box for $199

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I paid $199 for a TiVo Lifetime Transfer, so it transferred lifetime from an old Series 1 TiVo to the TiVo HD. You can find a new TiVo HD for $240. The payback period was less than a year for both of the TiVo HDs as well as the lifetime transfers.

No complaints with either and even though my Gen-1 Tivo box was a Sony, had a warm fuzzy from the fact Tivo & Directv had a good close relationship. And very happy with Tivo great customer service which allowed me switch my lifetime to a Gen-2 Tivo box over a year ago.

There is a pretty good chance that DirecTV and TiVo will have a new HD receiver in the future. Now that DirecTV is no longer a part of News Corp, it is much more free to use other software providers, and the two companies have hinted at new produces. The fact that they are still updating the software on old TiVos speaks well of their relationship.

The culprit turned out to be a circa-2008 Airport Extreme that I was using to drive my 802.11N network from the office. It turns out, the older Airport Extreme can handle either 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz frequencies, but not both simultaneously. Since the iPhone / iPod uses 2.4Ghz, for compatibility you are effectively stuck at 2.4Ghz. In addition, my office is literally at one corner of my house from the bedroom. Not ideal, spatially, for the hub of my network. The living room is more centrally located.

As a solution, I purchased a newer Airport Extreme base station, with dual-band support. However, instead of replacing the old base station, I added it to the living room as a network extension of the existing wireless network. In order to do this, you need to do the following:

Yes, all these features have been available for years on other Tivo boxes. Yes, DirecTV is still not providing access to home media options, Tivo To Go, Amazon Unbox, or any of the other cool services from Tivo. Yes, DirecTV apparently has no interest in actually pleasing its customers.

Very inexpensive case, likely due to the fact that this is a demo unit. Hard to believe these would be the final designs. Sounds like some enhancement to the CableCard support, including a multi-stream card slot (on-demand?)

The question is, will the Apple TV be a disruptive engine that will radically reshape the economics of TV and Movies? Or, will it fall in the category of gorgeous, but underpowered boxes that fail to find an audience (et tu, G4 Cube?)

He basically argues that the problem with Apple TV is that unlike music, Apple cannot ship DVD-ripping software to customers. As a result, consumers will have no easy way to convert their existing content (DVDs) to digital format.

Second, PVRWire is reporting that you can, in fact, transfer your lifetime subscription from your DirecTivo to the Series 3. This is important, since until now, people had thought the deal was only good if you transferred the lifetime subscription from a Series 2.

I have to say, having over 100 hours of storage definitely changes the way you use your Tivo. When we had 30 hours, my wife and I would rarely record movies, since 30 hours covered just about 2 weeks of average recording. Dual tuners made it worse, because you could actually now catch competing shows.

Please go to Tivo.com/legal to review our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. You will also be able to review them During Guided Setup of your new device. You must agree to the Terms and Conditions to complete activation of your device.

You have selected an annual service plan for $149.99, plus applicable taxes, per year for EDGE for Cable or $69.99, plus applicable taxes, per year for EDGE for Antenna with a one-year commitment. Your service plan will renew automatically annually. An early termination fee of $150.00 plus applicable taxes will apply if a cancellation is made prior to the end of your commitment period.

You have selected the All-In service plan for a one-time charge of $299.99, plus applicable taxes for EDGE for Cable or $199.99 for EDGE for Antenna, plus applicable taxes. The All-In TiVo service plan lasts for the lifetime of your corresponding TiVo device (not your lifetime) and cannot be transferred to another device.

These Service Plan Terms and Conditions apply to purchases and service in the United States
# Monthly TiVo service subscriptions will continue after the 1-year commitment period, billed at the same monthly rate, until service is cancelled by going to www.tivo.com/myaccount. Subscriptions cancelled before the commitment period is over will incur a $150 early termination fee plus applicable tax. All paid monthly service fees are non-refundable.

# Annual TiVo service subscriptions will automatically renew for a one (1)-year period, billed at the same annual rate, unless service is cancelled by going to www.tivo.com/myaccount. All prepaid annual service fees are non-refundable.

5 Broadband internet connection is required to access and receive streaming content. Availability of streaming content from third-party sources is subject to change, and certain third-party fees may apply. Streaming apps may not be available in all regions.

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First, a definition: "TiVo service" refers to the subscription to TiVo for guide data, software updates, online scheduling, etc. So "lifetime TiVo service" is when a customer prepays for the service instead of paying monthly or yearly for service. Some people confuse TiVo lifetime service with a TiVo lifetime product warranty - which never existed.

Initially, there was confusion as to whether the lifetime service applied to the hardware, or to the customer, should they switch hardware. TiVo soon defined it to apply solely to the hardware, but added a grandfather clause stating that customer who initially purchased lifetime service before February of 2000, and whose units were still active, could move the lifetime service to a different unit once, with no fee. After that, lifetime wasn't movable from the unit under that program.

Some units here excepted from that Spring 2005 change - notably the Humax and Toshiba units that contain DVD burners. Probably due to contractual agreements with these manufacturers, TiVo kept offering lifetime service for these units at a cost of $299. Also, TiVo had at one point sold gift cards that were eligible for lifetime service for one unit. So that gift card could be redeemed on any unit, even after the Spring of 2005.

For DirecTV/TiVo combo units (often called DirecTiVos), TiVo originally offered a lifetime service plan. At some point early on, DirecTV and TiVo customers stopped paying the TiVo fee to TiVo directly, and the payments became part of the DirecTV bill. At this point, DirecTV essentially assumed and honored the lifetime commitments that TiVo had made directly with customers. From that point on, customer paid their "DVR Service Fee" to DirecTV. The price for that was originally $4.99/month, and is currently $5.99/month (waived with some DirecTV plans). Contrary to the way TiVo service fees are charged for standalone users, this one fee covers all units on a customer's account. And if a current account had a lifetime TiVo, that DVR fee is now waived for the entire account, no matter the number of DVRs on the account.

In 2007, soon after the release of the TiVo Series3, TiVo made available the first of several lifetime transfer offers. For $199, they allowed customers to transfer lifetime service from an older unit to a Series3 TiVo. As part of the deal, they included service on the older unit for one more year, after which point, the unit would need it's own subscription (likely as a part of the same account, and therefore eligible for the multi-service discount). During this first lifetime transfer period, any unit that had lifetime service was eligible, even DirecTiVos in many cases. The DirecTiVo eligibility ended during the program - possibly because TiVo had difficulty determining if the DirecTiVos were currently in use on the customer's account.

TiVo has since followed up this promotion with similar deals involving service transfers at the same price and terms to other models including the Series2 Dual Tuner unit, and the TiVo HD unit. These later promotions had one important difference, though. For the older lifetime unit to be eligible for the transfer, the unit would have had to have had lifetime service for at least four years. This was done because for accounting reasons, TiVo Inc. amortizes the payment for lifetime service as revenue spread across four years. After that four year point, TiVo Inc. can't claim to be generating revenue from that unit. So with this program, TiVo is able to start a new revenue stream from this customer, and count them as a subscriber for four more years - possibly longer if the customer keeps the older unit in service for more time. In addition, of course, they potentially sell more units, and make current customers happy.