I was dealing with this regarding an elderly parent and them not wanting to drop their TiVo, but having issues over the years. They finally just adopted the cable company's DVR and are happier without the headaches. It was a learning curve, the TiVo was clearly easier, but they adapted.
Those cablecards were always an issue, I believe they had to provide those by law, but they did everything possible to make the experience miserable. I remember you had to both get cable cards and an external tuner to get all the channels on your TiVo. And the the TiVo boxes themselves had issues, people had paid for a lifetime service and wanted to repair them, etc.
TiVo was sort of like Beta vs VHS. It should have "won", it was the better product, but lots of poor decisions on how they monetized it. Someone like Apple should have bought them and somehow incorporated it into their ecosystem. But it's largely dead and I would say just abandon it and use the cable company DVR if you dont have any interest in streaming.
Those cablecards were always an issue, I believe they had to provide those by law, but they did everything possible to make the experience miserable. I remember you had to both get cable cards and an external tuner to get all the channels on your TiVo. And the the TiVo boxes themselves had issues, people had paid for a lifetime service and wanted to repair them, etc.
TiVo was sort of like Beta vs VHS. It should have "won", it was the better product, but lots of poor decisions on how they monetized it. Someone like Apple should have bought them and somehow incorporated it into their ecosystem. But it's largely dead and I would say just abandon it and use the cable company DVR if you dont have any interest in streaming.
Statistics: Posted by illumination — Mon Sep 30, 2024 8:57 pm — Replies 3 — Views 148