Apparantly TiVo Mini promotional pricing has been so successful that the company will be shifting the expiration date from January 6th, 2015 to May 4th, 2015. As a refresher, the TiVo Mini hardware launched at $100 and required either $6/month or $150 for Lifetime Service. Yet, with a new CMO on board tasked with revitalizing retail sales, one of his first maneuvers was more sensible pricing for the DVR extender — bundling hardware and service for a flat $150 (or less). Beyond that, a slightly refreshed TiVo Mini is on deck for a spring launch (with newly released FCC pics). And what I’d hoped might be an exciting Zigbee home automation module appears to be nothing more than RF remote control. It’s a nice-to-have, especially given wall or television-mounting, but not revolutionary nor quite as versitile as the wireless Mini I pine for. Perhaps TiVo will answer the call via other means at CES next month with the Amazon Fire TV support or Roku app that they’ve previously alluded to…