TiVo’s simple magic changed TV forever—now the iconic DVR is fading into history.
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TiVo was the “VCR code in the TV Guide” for the early digital age.
I abandoned my TiVo in 2021 when I went to update my box that had been in storage for too long. There was no incremental update available, I would have had to send the box to TiVo for them to update it for me.
I connected my Roku that had been in storage even longer and it updated itself without any issues. It took me longer to contact TiVo customer support than it did for my Roku to update itself.
While we loved our TiVo boxes while we had them, and they were ground breaking technology, they stagnated. TiVo never kept up technically.
Bleep bloop bye
Seems like they were always behind on things like that. I had a friend that would come over to my house to update his TiVo because I still had a landline and it required a dial-up connection. This was in 2005, well after the decline of dial-up.
remembering the early days of tivo desktop when they had no form of drm and you could just save programs to disk and share them
As someone who paid $500 USD for the lifetime pass and went through 3 TiVo units over 20 years: So long and thanks for all the ad-free moments.
