Joining the Borg (bought a TiVo)
Posted in General on 04/23/2005 05:56 pm by SeanYep, after talk of building a box for so long, Kat and I finally just went out and bought a 40 hour box. What made us come to this decision? Well the fact that I was playing around on this morning, and found a great deal available from Circuit City.
The 40 Hour recorder (series 2) is listed for $199, with a mail in rebate from circuit city for $100 bucks.
But even better is the fact that with an activation, TiVo has another $100 mail in rebate.
So after rebates our cost was tax. Not too shabby. We did have to purchase a wireless USB attachment for the thing because we don’t have a phone line in the house, so I get to go next door and set it up, and then bring it back over here to hook it up to the network. If I has a USB to ethernet adaptor I could do it here, but I don’t feel like spending the money and then returning it.
Nice thing about this TiVo box is that it already has drive brackets inside to add another hard drive, and from what it says on the message boards, pretty painlessly too.
For those of you out there that have a TiVo already, I do have one other piece of information you might want, evidently TiVo is getting pretty aggressive against all the new PVRs comming out. So if you call and speak with a cancellation rep (not just a customer service rep), and tell them that you are looking to switch over to another company because of the cost difference, chances are they will offer you a $6.95 a month deal for that TiVo Box. Since we are about to activate ours, i am going to wait a couple of months before trying this, but you long term users might want to take advantage of it.
*boup*
April 23rd, 2005 at 8:24 pm
Yeah, I’d seen the CC deal either yesterday or the day before … I should have posted it on IJSM, but I suck and did not.
Glad you people have joined the TiVolution.
Also, you would have had to go over to your neighbors’ house anyway, because unfortunately, you can only do activation on a phone line, regardless of how many boxes you have or whether you have a connection. I was pretty frustrated with that when I brought my second box online. This is something I’ll have to plan for if/when I get a third box [which is a possibility, although not a strong one].
April 24th, 2005 at 8:08 am
There is actually a workaround if you can use a USB to ethernet adaptor, when the TiVo tries to dial out to do the initial setup, you can type in a prefix that makes it use the USB port instead. Not in the instructions, but it can be found online. we got a wireless usb adaptor, and that will NOT work, has to be wired for intitial setup.
April 24th, 2005 at 9:04 am
Oooooh, I’ll have to check that when the time arises.
April 24th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
Welcome to the way and the light of the Tivo…
April 24th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
I have broken down, there is now a 76 ft telephone going to my neighbor’s house. he had satalite, so my initial setup didn’t work. Hopefully this will!
April 25th, 2005 at 7:17 am
Thanks, Heather. It was very exciting getting to set up our first Season Pass last night. Of course, it was Iron Chef America.
April 25th, 2005 at 9:37 am
Welcome to the Tivocult. That reminds me, I need to get the upstairs unit talking to the network.
April 25th, 2005 at 10:13 am
ahh. ICA. We love that show…
Glad you now have Tivo!
April 26th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Ha! Well lookie here…
Kat and Sean-tama!
I found you.
Tag you’re it.
-KC-
April 27th, 2005 at 7:20 am
KC!!!!!!!! You know, I was just thinking about you the other day. Granted, every time I think of New Orleans I think of you, but details, details…
May 1st, 2005 at 2:31 pm
really? Well, cool.
I’m glad to see you two are doing okay!
You can shoot me at email at evil_kc1@hotmail.com
if you wish, I’d love to hear from you two and
hear what’s been going on!
Talk to you soon,
KC
May 8th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
You can also do a ,#211 and hook a serial cable to an XP box acting as a ppp server, but hell an hour with the people in the box next door might not kill you. We just ditched our land lines (seeEya BellSouth!) and are totally VoIP now. We use the PPP updates.
Enjoy the digital crack. It changed my life. Just don’t ask me when anything comes on.
May 10th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
We finally got it hooked up with the wireless. we went though a USB to Ethernet adaptor for a few days (and then returned it later). But it turns out that what I really needed was and update to the 7.0b software, and you have to request that. once it had downloaded, everything was kosher. You wouldn’t even know we had cables running across our living room floor for 2 weeks now.
May 11th, 2005 at 8:07 am
So now you’re kickin’ it.
Are you now addicts?
May 11th, 2005 at 6:04 pm
Oh yeah
What is this thing you call live tv?
May 11th, 2005 at 6:49 pm
I don’t know … but I see it at my parents’ house, and it makes me suck my thumb.