I have had luck in the past getting them to transfer lifetime service. One of our TiVo HD machines is running on the lifetime account I paid $99 for in 1999 on an original TiVo.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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NoiseDesign - Dec 14, 2010 1:20:15 pm PST #15606 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Vortex - Dec 14, 2010 1:21:10 pm PST #15607 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
With today's market, a tivo is a luxury, and people might choose to go without or move to a cable provider DVR if they have to pay a monthly fee again.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2010 1:27:20 pm PST #15608 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm on my third TiVo, original lifetime subscription.
Consuela - Dec 14, 2010 1:37:06 pm PST #15609 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm on my third TiVo, original lifetime subscription.
Okay, how did you do that?
le nubian - Dec 14, 2010 1:38:16 pm PST #15610 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita has secret powers
Consuela - Dec 14, 2010 1:39:15 pm PST #15611 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I do not have secret powers! ::sigh::
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2010 1:58:35 pm PST #15612 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
By keeping an eye on their site, and upgrading whenever they mentioned they'd carry it over. But I would try asking and pushing, just in case.
javachik - Dec 14, 2010 2:06:24 pm PST #15613 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
I've got a Series 2 with lifetime, and I just don't watch enough (current) tv to justify upgrading. I keep playing around with numbers, though, to see if getting rid of a cable box and having only the Tivo box instead would help.
But no matter how much I crunch the numbers, the cable bill isn't going away (half of the bill is my cable internet) and my love of baseball means always needing to get Comcast Sports Bay Area and the MLB network.
NoiseDesign - Dec 14, 2010 2:07:29 pm PST #15614 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, call and press them on it. My lifetime subscription is onto it's 4th Tivo at this point, and the Tivo in the bedroom is on its second transfer.
Theodosia - Dec 15, 2010 2:00:48 am PST #15615 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Same here, moved from an S1 to an S3... which has all kinds of neat tricks, including getting the Netflix subscription service, so all the instant watch movies and TV series are available. I was surprised at how much nicer it was.
Plus, two tuners! You don't have a roomie with her own tastes, but it does make for for less conflict about what to record, plus the occasional times when two things I want to watch are on.