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Re: I was affected I too was affected, but with Cox Las Vegas - not in the market for the fines - but my Tivo and Cable cards worked only 25% of the time - often recording blank (e.g. no recording) shows. So, they're lucky they didn't have to pay a fine for las vegas too - I too got rid of my tivo (thankfully got it at Costco, because tivo says NO refunds) --- anyway, and had to switch to cox dvrs at $19 a month EACH (from a $3.00 a month cable card). |
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| Your issues had nothing to do with SDV deployments (Cox LV does not have SDV). Your issues were related to Tivo's interpretaion of the cablecard spec. Tivo does things slightly different than every other CE manufacturer using a cablecard. Both Moto and Cisco are constantly working cablecard "work arounds" to make the MSO's happy with dealing with Tivo using customers, even though the majority of the issues are in fact Tivo specific issues. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | reply to pcken98
So, you dropped (returned) one (1) tivo box and took it back to Costco and "had" to switch to a $19 DVR per month? So, when you reach your retail cost of the TIVO plus monthly subscription costs, let us know would ya? |
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| If cox is $19/mo not including bogus fees/taxes, then It'd take me 16 months to pay off my box. Considering my first tivo is over 5 years old and going strong, it has paid for itself time and time again. My 2nd Tivo, which is the HD model, is nearly paid off as well.
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Las Vegas, NV | reply to fiberguy
Considering Cox in LV charges an install fee for the Cable Cards, I'd say in about 18 months.
$19x12=228, plus $29.99 install fee = $257.99 for the first year of Cox cable dvr. (with his price quoted above of 19 a month)
129.99 (1 year svc), $149 for the tivo, $1.99 cc fee to cox = $302.87
Net difference after the first year is: 44.88
After the first year, Cox is still $19/month, and Tivo would be $12.82 ((129.99/12)+1.99 cc fee). So Each month of using Tivo instead of Cox DVR would be a net profit of $6.18, which would take about 7 months to pay off the 1st year difference of $44.88 stated above.
So after that 18th month (ROI if you will), he'd be saving money.
Summary:
Year 1
257.99 Cox (including install fee)
302.87 Tivo (including hardware purchase price)
Year 2 (actually starting on the 18th month after purchase)
228.00 Cox (no install fee)
153.87 Tivo (no hardware purchase cost)
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74.13 Savings per year after the first 18 months. |
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