 jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | reply to Chiyo
Re: I just signed up And when your Tivo breaks after 18 months you're out $249. |
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 aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
 ·Verizon FiOS
4 edits | said by jester121:And when your Tivo breaks after 18 months you're out $249. I've owned over twenty Tivos since 2001. I've never had one break.
And if people do have a problem it is typically the hard drive, which every dvr/pc has so they can all have a failure. But I have personally never had a TiVo or it's hard drive fail.
As far as hard drives, I've owned over one hundred fifty hard drives since the early 90's and I've only had two or three that have actually had problems that needed to be replaced under warranty. And those were not made anytime recently. |
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jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Good lord -- so you've paid (presumably) $200+ x 20+ Tivos? What happened to all of them?
The cable co will replace your DVR for free if it breaks, Tivo not so much. |
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Then spend an extra $30 and get a 3 Year Warranty from Squaretrade so you don't need to worry about it.. I've been using Tivo with 3 units (DT and HD) for almost 4 years and never had a problem. |
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aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
2 edits | reply to jester121
said by jester121:Good lord -- so you've paid (presumably) $200+ x 20+ Tivos? What happened to all of them? The cable co will replace your DVR for free if it breaks, Tivo not so much. $200? i wish they only cost $200. the first few I owned were the DirecTV tiVos which were only a few hundred. then I got several of the DirecTV HD TiVos which were $1K each. then the newer S3 models were around $700.
The current, cheap model, the TiVoHd I have six of them and paid around $250 each for them.
I also had a couple of the S2 models that had NTSC tuners. Those are in a closet somewhere and I need to throw them out since they are worthless to me now.
I've either given away or trashed my old units. I always intend to sell them but never get around to it. Like my DirecTV HDTiVos. I was ready to sell them almost 3 years ago, after the S3 models came out. But I never got around to it so they are sitting in my closet. |
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jester121Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | Good lord... I guess if I had that much invested in Tivo hardware I'd be trying to talk them up too.... |
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aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
2 edits | said by jester121:Good lord... I guess if I had that much invested in TiVo hardware I'd be trying to talk them up too.... I would have no problem leaving TiVo if something compelling came around that could beat what TiVo gives me. I could easily sell my current units, but there is nothing currently that can give me everything TiVo gives me. Moxi is probably the closest thing but still they don't give me what TiVo does.
with TiVo I can transfer any of my FIOS recordings to a PC for either permanent storage of burning to disc. |
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 dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL | reply to aaronwt
i've had one tivo get a bad hard drive out of the 8 or so i've had here since 2003 or so.
and replacing the hard drive yourself once it has gone bad is not the easiest thing in the world, requires linux based cloning software and a copy of the original disk (which tivo won't provide.., but you can make yourself if you plan and/or buy it online from others for $20 or 30). basically if your drive dies in a tivo, the average lamen would throw it in the landfill. |
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aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
| said by dddane:i've had one tivo get a bad hard drive out of the 8 or so i've had here since 2003 or so. and replacing the hard drive yourself once it has gone bad is not the easiest thing in the world, requires linux based cloning software and a copy of the original disk (which tivo won't provide.., but you can make yourself if you plan and/or buy it online from others for $20 or 30). basically if your drive dies in a tivo, the average lamen would throw it in the landfill. Actually it is one of the easiest things to do in the world. You use WinMFS, which is a program that runs in Windows. Removing the hard drive takes minutes and WInMFS is extremely easy to use. Epecially for a person that is used to windows programs.
Or there ar eother solutins if you need a new image. $20 and as long as you are able to connect the cables on the drive and a PC and boot from thedisc, you juts follow the easy instructions. They make it very easy since the program is doing all the work. No need to understand anything at all about linux. |
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