Lifetime TiVo Service Revived for a Limited Time
Tue Jul 3, 2007 11:40AM EDT
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Around this time last year, TiVo ended its famous lifetime service plan, whereby you could pay a lump sum up front to receive software updates and program guides from the TiVo mothership as long as your TiVo box was alive. It sure beat paying up to $20 a month, which is what the current plans cost.
If you've got an older model TiVo and have lifetime service on it, TiVo's offering a limited chance to upgrade it and get lifetime service again. The fine print is a little nasty: You have to have a TiVo with lifetime service activated prior to June 15, 2003, and you can only upgrade to a new 80-hour Series 2 Dual-Tuner model. Larger Series 2 units and the high-definition Series 3 model aren't supported. The switch costs $299, and your lifetime service will be transferred to the new box.
Contrary to the original post linked above (and the screenshot), TiVo has extended this offer until the end of August, so you have all summer to make up your mind. You can get the full details on TiVo's website. I doubt many of you are using four-year-old TiVo boxes, but for anyone still suffering with a primitive Series 1 TiVo, this is really a great deal that you shouldn't pass up.
So, TiVo, how about extending this to those of us that want to upgrade to Series 3 boxes?
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2 Posted by doug40510@sbcglobal.net on Wed Jul 4, 2007 6:37AM EDT Report Abuse
I have an 80 hr Humax that I got in 2003 or 2004 that I got the life time membership on. I'd figured that if it last as long as two years it would be the same as paying a member ship every month for two years and everthing after that would be free. And then Tivo came out with the series 3 HD 300 hours with the option of transfering the life time membership over from the series 2 for 299.00, so I did and got a free one year membership on the series 2. Now I watch way to much Tivo, lol.
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3 Posted by bowtah on Wed Jul 4, 2007 5:28PM EDT Report Abuse
The terms say: 3. Eligible customer must purchase a TiVo Series2 80 hr DT DVR from www.tivo.com/transfer by 7/23/2007 and transfer of the qualifying Product Lifetime Subscription to the DVR purchased pursuant to this offer is required by 8/31/2007. So you have until 7/23 to BUY the TiVo, but until 8/31 to ACTIVATE it. Just ordered mine. It's a great deal for those of us who have dead Series 1 Tivos with previously useless lifetime subscriptions.
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4 Posted by redvino1963 on Thu Jul 5, 2007 10:46PM EDT Report Abuse
Too bad they don't make anymore for Direct TV, which is what my Series 1 box is (still going strong) with the lifetime subscription. And, if I were to get another, it would be for an upgrade to HD, which is what everyone is going toward. I do love my TiVo and am not looking forward to the soon coming day that I will upgrade to Hi Def with the purchase of a new plasma TV and have to replace my great TiVo box with a inferior Hi Def DVR from Direct TV.
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1 Posted by hibbert415 on Tue Jul 3, 2007 1:31PM EDT Report Abuse
Boo-urns. Looks like tivo just isn't selling enough boxes. I the old days, its was a reward for believing in the company (and a shot in the arm for fledgling tivo.)