I have 3 old Tivos w Lifetime Service

Which models are you referring to? Were they still connecting to the TiVo service?

 

Yep, Lifetime is for the Lifetime of the box.

One thing to consider: in the course of the past 1 year+, TiVo has had promotions for the Series 2/Series 3/Premiere TiVo boxes--buy a new Bolt from TiVo at regular retail pricing and transfer your Lifetime from the old box to the new for $99. A nice deal, especially if you have older boxes that you're not really using. The "trick" with these offers has been, the old box must be "current"--typically having connected to the TiVo mothership in the past year.

And so, should the offers come back again, you might want to dust off your old boxes and have them connect to the TiVo mothership, and have them do so periodically (e.g. 1x/month?).

 

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Listed where?

Series 1 is EOL, not much you can do with it if you have any. S2 is SD, not much demand for them, but you can check Ebay for value, as some folks still use them.

 

The ones listed in @bebw signature...

 

Some people have signatures turned off. Same goes for mobile device access.

 

Someone might buy the Series2 for $20-$30. Tivo doesn't send guide data to the series 1's anymore. Only possible use for a series 1 that I can think of is to record from a surveillance camera. I think you waited too long to liquidate these items.

 

Ah... I hadn't considered that... Thanks...

 

I wonder, if you have one of the really old Series 1s with lifetime activated before they changed their lifetime terms of service, will TiVo still allow you to transfer the lifetime service for free to a new unit?

 

The Bolt offers haven't required that the old box be connected for a year, just that it had made a contact to the TiVo mothership at some point in the past year. But who knows what might be required in the future--the reason I think it safest to connect up monthly or so.

 

Bulk Trash Pickup, I would say, unless they work and there is something on them worth saving. No offense, but I upgraded my original XL4 after 16 months to my Roamio Pro in 10/2013 because it was so slow. Picked up a used XL4 with lifetime service almost a year ago. Can't afford another Tivo (wish I had a Bolt+ though).

 

IMO, the only value is (as already noted) for potential promotions that would allow for a lifetime transfer. Just dust them off every 6 months or so and have them call home to the mothership. For the old S1, you can check your account status online to see when you first activated it and if it was before the grandfather date (Jan 2000 I think).

 

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Would show any TiVos on your account

 

For the grandfathering, if you qualify, you might need to walk them through the offer terms or get a supervisor, as it was from so long ago.

 

Agree, none of the current service agents would have any idea and it might not even be in any of their databases anymore. You used to have to ask for a manager and refer to TiVoStephen.