We went with the lifetime plan and it's great for a low-cost Tivo. Like something that could ostensibly be a usable secondary workhorse in the 3rd floor guest room. As ours still is.
I presently have a Dual-Tuner Series 2 and think it is fine for what it does. But then I also have Digital Cable packages and several shows that I watch. I have a script that will unDRM the Tivo files once on my Storage network and they get filed away by show for later re-uploading.
Tivo's "video upload" feature is pretty cool but you need to be sure the network connectivity to the Tivo is wired if you're going to be transfering between 2 tivos, pulling stuff to store or uploading torrented files onto it. It also works with Netflix and Amazon's Unbox which can take hours to download a single TV episode or movie if your Net bandwidth is slow and you don't have a decent cable going to the box.
That's MY experience.
In the next few years I'll probably upgrade to an HDTV, Series 3 HDTivo which will also let me auto-pull videos off YouTube which is always fun.
For now, this seems to work OK. I need to get over to Comcast to return the broken cable box upstairs which doesn't appear to be showing digital content.
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Date: 2009-01-15 05:53 pm (UTC)I presently have a Dual-Tuner Series 2 and think it is fine for what it does. But then I also have Digital Cable packages and several shows that I watch. I have a script that will unDRM the Tivo files once on my Storage network and they get filed away by show for later re-uploading.
Tivo's "video upload" feature is pretty cool but you need to be sure the network connectivity to the Tivo is wired if you're going to be transfering between 2 tivos, pulling stuff to store or uploading torrented files onto it. It also works with Netflix and Amazon's Unbox which can take hours to download a single TV episode or movie if your Net bandwidth is slow and you don't have a decent cable going to the box.
That's MY experience.
In the next few years I'll probably upgrade to an HDTV, Series 3 HDTivo which will also let me auto-pull videos off YouTube which is always fun.
For now, this seems to work OK. I need to get over to Comcast to return the broken cable box upstairs which doesn't appear to be showing digital content.