Where to get tivo from?

[rickman1000]

hi all im new here and would like to know where i can get the tivo box from?
i live in the uk but tivo.com does not have anything on there site about buying from them.
thanks

[justen_m]

tivo.com. That's where I got two of my Tivos. My TivoHD I just bought I got on clearance from Sears.

I suppose you could go the ebay route. How much are you willing to risk to save a few $$$?

[paulnelson20]

The most obvious place would be tivo.com but many of the big box stores carry them(ex. Best Buy) and numerous online retailers carry them.

Edit: here's a clipping from wiki:
Service availability

The TiVo service is available in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada (except Québec), Mexico, Australia and Taiwan at present. Over the years since its initial release in the United States, TiVo Series 1 & 2 DVRs have also been modified by end users to work in Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

The TiVo service was launched in the United Kingdom in the autumn of 2000. It sold only 35,000 units over the next 18 months. Thomson, makers of the only UK TiVo box, abandoned it in early 2002 after BSkyB launched its Sky+ integrated 'set-top' decoder and DVR which dominated the market for DVRs in homes subscribing to BSkyB's paid-for satellite TV service. Many manufacturers, including Thomson[6][7] have launched integrated decoder boxes/DVRs in the UK for other digital platforms, including free satellite, terrestrial, cable and IPTV.

Whilst TiVo is no longer on sale in the UK, the subscription service is still maintained with both lifetime and monthly subscriptions. A technical issue caused TiVo Suggestions to stop recording for Series 1 UK TiVo customers in late September 2008, but this was fixed in late January 2009.[8]

TiVo will go on sale in New Zealand in the first week of November 2009.[9]

Sounds hardware is not available for purchase in the UK right now. I also read somewhere else that TiVo's purchased in the US will not work 100% properly in the UK. Don't know why, as service is available for people who purchased in the past.

[justen_m]

Oh, sorry. I have no idea about UK stuff. Just another ignorant American here. ;)

[rickman1000]

lol thanks anyway

[dianebrat]

I'm stunned.. no one suggested you head over the to UK sub-forum?
(unless your initial unedited post didn't mention the UK)
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Diane

[ggieseke]

US Series 1s won't work in the UK (PAL vs NTSC, etc). Your only real option would be to pick up a used Thomson locally.