New Tivo with no monthly service charge - OTA recording

[MustISO]

Didn't see this mentioned anywhere:

http://pr.tivo.com/press-releases/m...s-the-tivo-roamio-ota-1tb-nasdaq-tivo-1255911

 

[soulcougher73]

I love mine, but i got a better deal than this when it was on sale.

 

[Childs]

Yeah, I paid $300 for the last Roamio OTA with lifetime in January, and added a 4TB drive for either $90 or $100.

 

[NoCreativity]

Very interested in this though $400 is pretty steep. If/when this one hits $300 I think I'll bite.

Getting sick of maintaining the WMC HTPC. I'm at the point I just want something that works. WMC has been great but I have had guide issues and I can't justify the acrobatics of implementing other solutions when this does 90% of what I need.

 

[JackBurton]

Thanks for the info. Checking it out.

 

[SaurusX]

I'll echo a lot of the other comments and say that this may be exactly what I'm looking for to replace my decrepit Vista Media Center DVR. In fact, I was pricing out a completely new system yesterday and it was going to be between $450-500. It goes without saying that I'd have to use Win7 for the OS, which MS is making very difficult.

Not having to deal with Windows and having the exact functionality that I'm looking for may make me pull the trigger here. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[soulcougher73]

For people interested also look into the Tivo Mini and/or Tivo Stream to see if they are things you might also want to complement your home.

 

[NutBucket]

Very interested in this though $400 is pretty steep. If/when this one hits $300 I think I'll bite.

My folks bought a Roamio a couple years ago...$200 + $600 lifetime service. If you've never used a TIVO before the level of functionality is excellent. You really do get what you pay for; good software, easy to use, fast channel changing, etc.

 

[SaurusX]

How does the Roamio deal with splitting the incoming antenna signal four ways? It seems to me that unless you have a very robust incoming signal that there'd be significant weakening of some edge channels. Maybe to the degree of not being able to tune them in.

 

[ControlD]

My folks bought a Roamio a couple years ago...$200 + $600 lifetime service. If you've never used a TIVO before the level of functionality is excellent. You really do get what you pay for; good software, easy to use, fast channel changing, etc.

Agreed. I got lucky and picked up a Roamio for $49 last summer when they were clearing out the refurbished units. The WAF is extremely high with the Tivo. Being able to add the Tivo Mini units is awesome as well.

Having to deal with the tuning adapter from the cable company sucks, but that obviously isn't a concern with the OTA units.

 

[NutBucket]

I'm lucky that the WAF is fine with windows media center too.