Can I do Tivo2Go without TiVo service?

Requires service.

 

Minimum of one year contract with new service - even on an older unit.

 

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If I transfer service from an existing series 2 unit (with HMO) to a new unit (HD) will I be able to use the "old" box as described above?

 

HMO requires service. If you transfer it away everything except watch live TV is disabled.

 

You can also watch any previously recorded shows on the box after canceling service.

 

It needs to have service, but only briefly. Once the new Tivo connects to the Tivo service, and receives all necessary updates, you can tell your router to stop allowing that Tivo to access the Internet. Your new Tivo will still think it has service, even if it doesn't, because it would have to connect to the Internet to learn that it doesn't. It will complain about a lack of guide data after a while, but you should still be able to use it for MRV (though perhaps not indefinitely).

 

Definitely not indefinitely - about a month. If the unit is on monthly service it has to talk to the server regularly to confirm the service is active or it self-deactivates.

Plus ALL new account activations require a minimum one year commitment - though you could cancel within the first 30 days, of course. But that's not going to get you much since the box is going to turn itself off soon thereafter.

 

Thanks guys, I've got two Series 2's with lifetime service and would love to transfer the lifetime service to a new HD box and use one of the "old" boxes to just watch stuff I've recorded on the others (on a different level of the house without cable) but it sounds like its a no go. Man I miss the lifetime service option!

 

You could do that for a year. Part of the deal is the old Lifetimed TiVo gets one year service.