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TIVO -- the lifetime follows the unit and not the customer. Actually my original S1 Lifetime was transferred to the Series 2 for $100 (about 1/3 the going rate) and now I'll transfer that to a new Bolt for $99 (1/6 the going rate) so I'd say I got more than my money's worth on it. Even my two...

Not much to offer on the advancements though the units are transferable and seem to keep decent resale value with the Lifetime attached for close to a decade. Series 3 with Lifetime since they handle HD and have OTA tuners still sell for a decent amt of money since they can function quite...

Exactly . Since the old DirecTIVO's are long gone. I bought a lifetime way back from them too and the best thing about that was the Lifetime was that it followed the account and not the unit so all those monthly fees were free for me for 15 years no matter how many DTV DVR I had in the...

If you're going to update the HDD you might as well get the 500GB Tivo for $130-150 off Amazon (or PM at BBY). I bought a cheap used Roamio Plus on Ebay a few months ago and moved my Cable Card from one of my Lifetime TIVOHD (series 3), now I have the TIVOHD set up for dual tuner OTA and Roamio...

I've rarely read many people happy with switching from TIVO to CableCo equivalents. Part of it is the learning curve learning a new system, but it seems most people end up missing their TIVO and return to it. With some CableCo charging $20 or more a month for a DVR it doesn't help when you...

A couple things Very easy to update the HD to 2 or 3TB -- drop in and turn on unit. The 4 Tuner Bolt is equivalent to original Roamio -- can operate in ANT or Cable mode, but not both simultaneously BoltPlus is a Black 6 tuner variation with only Cable compatibility and 3TB HD so pretty much...