Black Friday Sale

I saw the offer pop up on my Roamio Plus today as well. After ~20 years with TiVo's, I still don't think I'm upgrading. Time to ride out the Roamio as long as it can go and then likely off to (barf) Xfinity boxes.

TiVo EDGE for Cable | Replace your Cable Box DVR with TiVo

 

Looks like $99 each year if you read the fine print.

“If you select the Annual Service your credit card will be billed annually by TiVo in the amount of $99.99 plus tax as applicable.”

 

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I came here to see what the consensus was on the offer. My series 3 with lifetime was $855, my Roamio was $750. Seems like a good deal but I wasn't happy with the UI upgrade. It lasted a day and I reverted. I would assume I can't use the old UI on the Edge. My series 1 still boots. I've been a Tivo loyalist from the start but I agree with Ocresident. Not sure how long Tivo will last.

 

What happened to their OTA Edge with 4 Tuners? Why would they get rid of that and only have a 2 tuner Edge?

 

Because they are a horribly managed organization that appears to actually want to fail. That's honestly the best answer.

 

Well, if you do this would you come back here and offer your findings/opinion/decision? I think we're all in the same (sinking) boat and would like to see what the future holds.

 

I am new to the TIVO group. I just purchased 2-edge antenna with lifetime/all in. I am coming from Directv Satellite ever since AT&T took over it has gotten worse and worse it just became ridiculous with what they were charging and then having to get them to make the bill right all the time. We also have Youtube TV for our streaming service. It comes with a unlimited DVR, which you need if you have a wife like mine. It is nice for a DVR, but is not as nice as TIVO or Directv's DVR. The picture quality is excellent.It takes a little getting used too,but in the end does what you want.It is not as accurate on stopping at the correct point when fast forwarding or rewinding. Most cases you have to tape the entire season of a show, individual shows are not possible in some cases but you have a unlimited DVR service. I would say for $65.00 a month its about as good as it gets right now for what it offers if you need a lot of DVR space. I have not seen any commercial I could no fast forward through. The reason I have the edge antenna is because of some local channels I like that streaming or other services don't offer. It has filled the hole nicely.
Hope this helps out.
P.S. I would like to know also why they don't offer the 4-tuner, multi gb storage units on Tivo anymore. I hope they are not turning into a AT&T, because that will be a disaster.

 

This. Do I want to battle with Comcast and get lucky enough to get connected to a greybeard who even knows what a cablecard is? I just had to do this with moving and it was a totally awful chore.

An interim solution of their lack of ability to re-activate it was to replace my cablecard with a new one even though the problem was clearing something in their system, not a hardware issue.

 

I don't understand the comments here about $99 annual service fees when the sale at TiVo Edge for Antenna OTA DVR | Digital Recorder Compatible With All TV Antennas | Service Included, No Monthly Fees is for $349 Edge w/All-in lifetime included. Is that even a Black Friday sale?

 

My guess is they are moving towards getting out of DVR business. They farmed out the 4 tuner OTA to Channel Master earlier this year and they seem to be mostly sold out. They then farmed out the 2 tuner models which were originally only sold in Canada, probably had a warehouse full. All you can buy from Tivo direct is the cable model. Which is the most vulnerable to becoming totally obsolete due to being cable card dependent. I would be interested to know if Tivo is even having DVRs manufactured anymore or just selling off what they have left. OTA market probably too small to come up with ATSC 3.0 device and no alternative for the cable model far as I know. As for AT&T, at least they will be around as a company for awhile, Tivo, who knows..................

 

I don't think they want/wanted to fail. Today's tech has just made their product near obsolete (at least the DVRs.) For those that own, enjoy while you can. I hope for a few more years at least.

 

What happens if you can't get a cable card to make it work?
(interesting article about recent FCC 1990s era rule now changed)

The FCC is allowing cable TV companies to stop providing CableCARDs because no one used them.

 

The Sale on OTA Edge is probably the 2 tuner model with lifetime support.
I don't think you can buy the 4 tuner model for less than $299. If so, I got ripped off. Speaking of rip-offs, I dumped Directv not because I was paying >$100/m to watch FOX Business and Tosh.0, but because I never watched and no longer wish to support the likes of CNN, MSNBS, Fox, AT&T, Xfinity, Netflix, Hulu, and Prime. I dumped them all.
I had used Tivo since it was a part of the old SD Directv boxes. Then I had a free standing unit for a while back in the '00s. It was like finding an old friend.
Tivo, as best as my research allows, is owned by Xperi, an electronics firm which hopefully is not associated with these media outlets. I will watch the other networks for free OTA. Most of the stuff I recorded was OTA anyway. I do enjoy shortening my screen time by 33% by cutting commercials.
I have been using my old Series 3 HD Tivo until the new 4 tuner edge box arrives. It is not supported but still provides great reception and live recording. The new model will hopefully breathe new life into OTA DVR-ing for us "OK- Boomers". And only $6.99 a month! 1 yr for less than the price of 1 m of the dish/cable.
The 'lennials will complain that it can't incorporate streaming well, but you don't need DVR function until your dumb-ass provider pulls your series right in the middle of your binge.

 

If you click on the little video on the page - it shows an arrow to the lifetime, not the annual service.

 

@Ocresident, wow, thanks for the news of the Black Friday deal! I'm glad I didn't pull the trigger on that $349 deal now. I set a reminder for the 27th to make the purchase on Black Friday.

As for the comments about OTA vs. streaming, I am hoping that the Edge contains enough of the TV Everywhere service to make at-least some on-demand viewing work. I don't necessarily care if I can record it. I just picked up a Tivo Stream 4k for that stuff (understanding that it runs Google Chromecast software and thus has access to the Google ecosystem). It'd be a big plus if the Edge could do everything that the Stream 4k can do.