I've had my Series 1 since Nov 1999 and it runs like a champ (after replacing the HD with dual 80GB drives). I have calculated that I have paid $1.32 per month (and dropping) since paying $100 for my lifetime subscription.
Personally I plan on buying the Series 3 shortly after it comes out. Somebody said, "The Series 2 does anybody would need from a DVR." Sorry, but the Series 2 does not have dual tuners, digital cable/ATSC capabilities, or the ability to record HDTV. I currently rent a HD-DVR from my cable co for $17.90 and it doesn't do half the things the Series 3 can. The HD-DVR can't record broadcast stations, schedule recordings from the internet, browse my pictures, play my MP3s, or offer TiVoToGo capabilities.
I was happy to see that I was going to pay only $6.95 a month because of their multi-service discount (and I would have upgraded to lifetime after maybe 6mos). I now can only imagine that they are going to drop the multi-service discount since they didn't mention it in their press release. They have even increased the monthly service fee from 12.95 per/mo which makes me worry that they may charge MORE for the new Series 3 features. Personally I would hope they charge LESS since I will need to rent 1 or 2 cable cards to replicate some of the functionality of my HD-DVR.
I thought I was going to save money by switching to the Series 3, but if their monthly service fee + cable card rental is greater than $17.90 I will need to seriously consider my purchase.
TiVo doesn't stop you from fast fowarding through the commercials, but it isn't as nice as my RCA VCR that has the automatic fastforward through commericals. Not to say that my VCR can even touch the features that the TiVo has. I highly recommend, if you have the means, buying TiVo.
Slashdot Mirror
I've had my Series 1 since Nov 1999 and it runs like a champ (after replacing the HD with dual 80GB drives). I have calculated that I have paid $1.32 per month (and dropping) since paying $100 for my lifetime subscription.
Personally I plan on buying the Series 3 shortly after it comes out. Somebody said, "The Series 2 does anybody would need from a DVR." Sorry, but the Series 2 does not have dual tuners, digital cable/ATSC capabilities, or the ability to record HDTV. I currently rent a HD-DVR from my cable co for $17.90 and it doesn't do half the things the Series 3 can. The HD-DVR can't record broadcast stations, schedule recordings from the internet, browse my pictures, play my MP3s, or offer TiVoToGo capabilities.
I was happy to see that I was going to pay only $6.95 a month because of their multi-service discount (and I would have upgraded to lifetime after maybe 6mos). I now can only imagine that they are going to drop the multi-service discount since they didn't mention it in their press release. They have even increased the monthly service fee from 12.95 per/mo which makes me worry that they may charge MORE for the new Series 3 features. Personally I would hope they charge LESS since I will need to rent 1 or 2 cable cards to replicate some of the functionality of my HD-DVR.
I thought I was going to save money by switching to the Series 3, but if their monthly service fee + cable card rental is greater than $17.90 I will need to seriously consider my purchase.
You were required to take a PISS test?
It is a newer version of CE
h tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/21/0852211.s
TiVo doesn't stop you from fast fowarding through the commercials, but it isn't as nice as my RCA VCR that has the automatic fastforward through commericals. Not to say that my VCR can even touch the features that the TiVo has. I highly recommend, if you have the means, buying TiVo.