TiVo upgrade and transfer offer
02-15-03 | 10:57 AM
#1
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DVD Talk Hero
TiVo upgrade and transfer offer
I did a search and couldn't find that this had been posted yet.
TiVo has an offer for the those who bought early TiVo models. If you have one of these models (Philips HDR112, HDR212, HDR312, HDR612 and Sony SVR2000) with active lifetime sevice you can buy a new Series2 80 hour TiVo (must be purchased directly from them, not in a store) for $400 minus a $50 mail-in rebate and have your lifetime service transferred to the new machine. Your old one would no longer have service but there are limited uses even without all that (for example, you could use it to manually record like a VCR and still have TiVo advantages like watching a show you are in the process of recording). The new TiVo must be purchased by March 10.
Here's the offer:
TiVo Series2 Offer
I got the lifetime sevice a few years ago for $199. It's now $249 and will soon go to $299.
While I don't want to really spend $350 now, this seems to me to be a good offer. I think you can get one of these a little cheaper at places like Best Buy (maybe $20 or so less) but then you can't take advantage of the offer.
What do you all think? Any thoughts, reasons to do it, reasons not to do it etc.? Anyone else thinking of doing this?
TiVo has an offer for the those who bought early TiVo models. If you have one of these models (Philips HDR112, HDR212, HDR312, HDR612 and Sony SVR2000) with active lifetime sevice you can buy a new Series2 80 hour TiVo (must be purchased directly from them, not in a store) for $400 minus a $50 mail-in rebate and have your lifetime service transferred to the new machine. Your old one would no longer have service but there are limited uses even without all that (for example, you could use it to manually record like a VCR and still have TiVo advantages like watching a show you are in the process of recording). The new TiVo must be purchased by March 10.
Here's the offer:
TiVo Series2 Offer
I got the lifetime sevice a few years ago for $199. It's now $249 and will soon go to $299.
While I don't want to really spend $350 now, this seems to me to be a good offer. I think you can get one of these a little cheaper at places like Best Buy (maybe $20 or so less) but then you can't take advantage of the offer.
What do you all think? Any thoughts, reasons to do it, reasons not to do it etc.? Anyone else thinking of doing this?
Last edited by movielib; 02-15-03 at 03:04 PM.
04-30-05 | 11:24 PM
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DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by al_bundy
is this still available?
http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=420741
And the answer is no, you had to buy it by March 10, 2003.
I never understood why no one seemed interested back then. I went ahead and did it myself because it seemed like a very good deal to me. I've certainly never been sorry.
