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Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - CJsNvrUrly - 11-17-2007
After several years of using ReplayTV, I just clicked on buying a TiVo! I feel like I went to the dark side, but it's double the capacity (80 vs. 40) and will record TWO shows at once. What have I done? !
TiVo Series2 80-Hour DT 2-Tuner Digital Video Recorder for just $50 (with one-year subscription plan)...http://www.tivo.com/promo/specialmarkets.html
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - deckeda - 11-17-2007
All your shows are belong to them.
Or something like that.
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - AlphaDog - 11-17-2007
Hmmmm. That's really tempting. I've been thinking of getting TiVo for quite a while now. I feel my resolve slipping away.
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - DavidS - 11-17-2007
What are you going to to do wtih your ReplayTV? Still use it? Sell it on eBay? What model number was it and do you have lifetime or month-to-month subscription?
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - CJsNvrUrly - 11-17-2007
We still use it daily, but I guess we'll sell it now. It's model RTV5504 with a monthly subscription. I wish I'd bought the lifetime back when, but I was trying to avoid more credit card debt at the time...oh well...
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - NewtonMP2100 - 11-17-2007
. . .there is that deal combining RS and Amazon. . .at chubby billfold. . .pretty good deal. . .
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - davester - 11-17-2007
Perhaps you weren't quite aware of the capabilities of your ReplayTV. I have ReplayTV and can record two shows at once and I have 400 gb of capacity (and it automatically skips commercials and can stream two shows simultaneously to two TVs). The secret: 1) increasing HD capacity in a replay is child's play; 2) I have two replays that are hooked to different TVs and stream shows to one another over ethernet. Still far superior to TiVo (except maybe the HD TiVo).
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - Bill in NC - 11-17-2007
This is a better deal (free hardware with 1 year plan):
http://www.tivo.com/promo/toyotaowners.html
(promo code: toyota)
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - AlphaDog - 11-17-2007
[quote Bill in NC]This is a better deal (free hardware with 1 year plan):
http://www.tivo.com/promo/toyotaowners.html
(promo code: toyota)
And I even own a Toyota!
This is getting harder to resist, although I can't find an option to extend the prepaid subscription beyond one year with this offer. Can anybody else?
Re: Oh no! I went to the TiVo side! - Bill in NC - 11-17-2007
Did something similar - stacked a lifetime Tivo on top of the lifetime Replay, so I have a "dual-tuner" capability as well (300GB in the Tivo, 250GB in the Replay)
Nicest thing about my Series 2 Tivo is Amazon Unbox - free horror movies on there now, and plenty of 99 cent movie rentals every weekend.
If you're patient, you can pick up a Series 2 lifetime Tivo for under $250 on ebay (the one I bought last year was about $200, but it had a bad drive)
[quote davester]Perhaps you weren't quite aware of the capabilities of your ReplayTV. I have ReplayTV and can record two shows at once and I have 400 gb of capacity (and it automatically skips commercials and can stream two shows simultaneously to two TVs). The secret: 1) increasing HD capacity in a replay is child's play; 2) I have two replays that are hooked to different TVs and stream shows to one another over ethernet. Still far superior to TiVo (except maybe the HD TiVo).