itguy05
join:2005-06-17
Camp Hill, PA
| Simple Economics
Joe 6-pack sees:
1) Comcast DVR - $11/mo
2) Tivo - $299 + $16/mo + CableCard fees
They're going to pick #1 every time.
That being said, I've had DirecTIVO and now Comcast with a Motorola box. While the Motorola is no Tivo, the $300 - $5/mo I'll deal with it's idiosyncrasies. Not that Tivo didn't have theirs..... |
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Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA
| It's even worse for Tivo here in Time Warner territory. Time Warner charges a mere $6.95 for a DVR with one premium channel or their All-The-Best package. ($9.95 with just digital cable.) At that price, Tivo's $299 + $16/month just can't compete. I could have 2 DVRs and still save money over Tivo's one DVR. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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| quote:
Time Warner charges a mere $6.95 for a DVR with one premium channel or their All-The-Best package. ($9.95 with just digital cable.) At that price, Tivo's $299 + $16/month just can't compete. I could have 2 DVRs and still save money over Tivo's one DVR
Good lord Time Warner's pricing is way different here. I have all three services plus a premium channel.
DVR service is $9.99 plus the box rental fee of $4.24. Your 2nd box is $6.95. Here it is right off my bill:
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
1 edit | Just another reason I never went DVR... service fee + rental fee.
Instead I purchased a DVD-burner and a stack of DVD-RW's.
Of course, I don't record a whole lot, but I often keep what I burn.
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Toadman
How do you like these Apples
join:2001-11-28
Medina, OH
| reply to djrobx
said by djrobx  : quote:
Time Warner charges a mere $6.95 for a DVR with one premium channel or their All-The-Best package. ($9.95 with just digital cable.) At that price, Tivo's $299 + $16/month just can't compete. I could have 2 DVRs and still save money over Tivo's one DVR
Good lord Time Warner's pricing is way different here. I have all three services plus a premium channel. DVR service is $9.99 plus the box rental fee of $4.24. Your 2nd box is $6.95. Here it is right off my bill: Ouch!
I have no room to complain. My HD DVR 6412V3 rental fee is $6.00 a month and that includes the basic HD service as well. For me to get a cable card it is $4.00 a month, so $8.00 for two and then Tivo fee, I will just stick with my crappy Moto box. Atleast when it breaks they take it back and give me another one. |
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ncbill
Premium
join:2007-01-23
Winston Salem, NC | Here it is $7.70 for the DVR box PLUS $5.95 DVR fee for each DVR every month.
Tivo's monthly looks just fine compared to the above.
Cablecards here are $1.75/month. |
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DaveNJ
No Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
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·Patriot Media
| reply to itguy05
Not all DVRs have a monthly fee, plus in a few months others are going to be offering idcr DVRs. The cable companies are going to have to learn to cope real fast. What gets me, is when i bought my cable modem, all i did was call my cable provider, and in 15 mins it was working. Why cant they do the same with this. I go to the store get a cable card, call them, or go to a webpage, and poof its working.
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| reply to itguy05
said by itguy05 :Joe 6-pack sees: 1) Comcast DVR - $11/mo 2) Tivo - $299 + $16/mo + CableCard fees They're going to pick #1 every time. That being said, I've had DirecTIVO and now Comcast with a Motorola box. While the Motorola is no Tivo, the $300 - $5/mo I'll deal with it's idiosyncrasies. Not that Tivo didn't have theirs..... The only advantage, to me, is that my Verizon supplied DVR has quite limited storage while the TiVOs are expandable. Hopefully Verizon enables external storage, and if that is the case it would eliminate any advantage TiVO would have, for me. Yes the interface is nice, but so is the extra money in my pocket. Yes predictive recording, wish lists, etc are nice. But I only have X number of hours a week free to watch TV and I already record more then I typically watch, so recording even more won't do me much good.
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