As TiVo expands cord cutter marketing, they’ve now brought a Lifetime Service option to Roamio OTA. At least on an experimental basis. For a single $300 fee, you can now pick up a Roamio OTA bundled with a lifetime of TiVo service. Given four HD tuners, a 500GB drive, several solid apps like Netflix and Amazon Instant, the potential (for more $) to stream to mobiles devices or TiVo Mini, I’d say this is A Very Good Deal™. And it certainly undercuts Channel Master’s mostly silo-ed two tuner, 1TB $400 DVR+ — TiVo is the superior product and removing the $15/month barrier seals the deal. But you may want to act fast, as this is just one of several pricing permutations TiVo is looking at. The others, like this $400 Lifetime Service fee on top of hardware, aren’t nearly as appealing.
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Done! Placed my order. This is EXACTLY what I was waiting for.
of course this happens 1 month after i buy the base model for OTA only. well, i guess the bright side is if i ever (highly unlikely after 5 years) go back to cable, ill be able to use it. Also hope that the resale value of it would be higher than the OTA model.
I contacted TiVo about upgrading an existing Roamio OTA to lifetime, and I was told the only option is to buy a new box with this promotion. That's a bummer, but not unexpected. My guess is they'll give me the option to upgrade to lifetime at the end of my year of sevice, but I'll end up spending a fair bit more than $300. If I didn't already have an OTA I would jump on this deal.