What up with TiVo? (Page 1/1) James Bond 007 AUG 26, 10:25 AM Do you own a TiVo Box and is it dead? I was thinking about purchasing a TiVo, but after reading this, maybe not: Starting August 18th, 2022, Hulu App will no longer be supported on your TiVo DVRs. The Bolt has already been discontinued. Tivo will NOT re activate any series 1-5 boxes. They now only sell Edge boxes. RWDPLZ AUG 26, 01:43 PM Been a Tivo user and customer for over 10 years, current Tivo is a shell of its former self. They're better than cable boxes and cable company provided equipment, but that's not saying much, and the hardware and software has gone downhill significantly. If you watch a lot of cable TV, and you can still activate a Tivo Roamio Plus or Roamio Pro (Series 5), those are the two boxes to buy, best hardware and easily up-gradable to 3TB, just replace the internal electrolytic capacitors (the ones they come with have known failures, cheap Chinese junk capacitors). Ideally you want to find one with a lifetime service plan, otherwise it's like $150/year for guide data. A lot of the Tivo apps just stop working because Tivo won't update them, don't buy a Tivo with the expectation that any of the apps will work. They're currently selling an Amazon Firestick/Apple TV equivalent device for watching apps. The other issue with Tivo boxes now, is cable companies are no longer required to support cable cards, the devices that are installed in them to decode your local cable company signals. As a result a lot of jurisdictions are simply not supporting them. A few months ago I went to my local Comcast/Xfinity store to get one, and the brain trust there told me they didn't have them anymore. I had to schedule an installer to come out, and he had to run back to his office to grab a couple (no longer kept on trucks) and plug it in and activate it. The current model is the Edge, which is a really cheap plastic box with apparently high failure rates. I bought an Edge OTA (over the air broadcasts), and I wasn't impressed. The company seems to be on the edge of collapse. James Bond 007 AUG 26, 02:25 PM quote Originally posted by RWDPLZ: Been a Tivo user and customer for over 10 years, current Tivo is a shell of its former self. They're better than cable boxes and cable company provided equipment, but that's not saying much, and the hardware and software has gone downhill significantly. If you watch a lot of cable TV, and you can still activate a Tivo Roamio Plus or Roamio Pro (Series 5), those are the two boxes to buy, best hardware and easily up-gradable to 3TB, just replace the internal electrolytic capacitors (the ones they come with have known failures, cheap Chinese junk capacitors). Ideally you want to find one with a lifetime service plan, otherwise it's like $150/year for guide data. A lot of the Tivo apps just stop working because Tivo won't update them, don't buy a Tivo with the expectation that any of the apps will work. They're currently selling an Amazon Firestick/Apple TV equivalent device for watching apps. The other issue with Tivo boxes now, is cable companies are no longer required to support cable cards, the devices that are installed in them to decode your local cable company signals. As a result a lot of jurisdictions are simply not supporting them. A few months ago I went to my local Comcast/Xfinity store to get one, and the brain trust there told me they didn't have them anymore. I had to schedule an installer to come out, and he had to run back to his office to grab a couple (no longer kept on trucks) and plug it in and activate it. The current model is the Edge, which is a really cheap plastic box with apparently high failure rates. I bought an Edge OTA (over the air broadcasts), and I wasn't impressed. The company seems to be on the edge of collapse. Thanks for the info. Looks like I'll look into other OTA HD DVR's. The TiVo software does look user friendly, but if TiVo goes belly up, the TV Guid, will most likely cease to exist, Grrrrrrrrr!! kslish AUG 26, 04:17 PM Tivo is now part of the Xperi Holding Corporation. Like all "holding" corporations, they basically just milk the acquired technology dry without investing any further R&D into new products. Once there is no longer a profitable market for the Tivo DVR line, they will probably just revert to collecting licensing fees as Tivo owns a lot of patents that cable companies and even Google pay patent licensing fees for basic DVR functionality. https://www.theverge.com/20...eal-patent-licensing ls3mach AUG 27, 08:29 AM I didn't even know Tivo was still a thing. Practices like this really help justify people pirating content. Easier to steal it than go through legitimate avenues. Hank is Here AUG 27, 04:54 PM My household is still a Tivo customer. I forget which one we have but it has a lifetime plan, honestly the Tivo is probably the one thing that keeps us being cable customers rather than cutting the cord. The only app this is used is really youtube. for all other apps we use a Roku---such as Disney +.