r/Tivo

After TiVo stopped selling boxes/accessories/Lifetime (All-In) Service as of Oct. 1, 2025, they shipped whatever was remaining in their warehouses off to Weaknees. Here's what's remaining for sale In the Weaknees warehouse as of 5/17/26:

NEW TiVo Edge for Cable, 2TB ($500, incl. Lifetime): 178 units

NEW TiVo Edge for Cable, 3/6/10TB ($850/$1000/$1250, incl. Lifetime): 36 units

REFURB TiVo Edge for Antenna, 500GB ($250, Needs $14.99/mo service): 17 units

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NEW TiVo Bolt for Antenna OR Cable, .5/2TB, 4 tuner ($300/$500, Needs $14.99/mo service): 228 units

REFURB TiVo Bolt for Cable, 1TB, 6 tuner ($400, incl. Lifetime): 4 units

REFURB TiVo Bolt for Antenna OR Cable, .5/1/3/8TB, 4 tuner ($600/$700/$850/$1100, incl. Lifetime): SOLD OUT

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REFURB TiVo Roamio for Antenna, 1/2/6TB, 4 tuner ($500/$650/$875, incl. Lifetime): 4 units

REFURB TiVo Roamio Pro/Plus for Cable, 1/3/10TB, 6 tuner ($500/$600/$950, incl. Lifetime): 11 units

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REFURB TiVo Premier for Antenna and/or Cable, .5/1/2/4/6TB, 2 tuner ($400/$450/$500/$575/$700, incl. Lifetime): 5 units

REFURB TiVo Premier for Cable, 1/2/4/6TB, 4 tuner ($300/$400/$475/$600, incl. Lifetime): 11 units

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NEW TiVo Mini LUX 4K ($250, incl. Lifetime): 74 units

NEW TiVo Mini LUX 4K 3-pack ($700, incl. Lifetime): 48 units

REFURB TiVo Mini A93 ($130, incl. Lifetime): 3,428 units

REFURB TiVo Mini A92 ($120, incl. Lifetime): 3,449 units

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NEW TiVo LUX Remote ($60): 646 units

We stopped using our Tivo Roamio Plus after about ten years of good service when we cut the cord three years ago and have never looked back. We have a Tivo Roamio Plus with a lifetime membership and two Tivo Minis that we'll never use again. I hate to just throw away something that someone else may find of value, but I've heard that Tivo is on the way out, and I know most cable companies don't use cablecards anymore, so I'm not sure it would even be worth the time and shipping to get it to anyone else. Should I just pull the hard drive from the Roamio and then ewaste everything?

i had a tivo back in the early 2000's, thus i have some old videos on my hard drive in .Tivo format (file extension)
VLC doesnt play them, window media doesnt play em... how can i get to view/play these video files?

thank you!

I hooked up a Tivo Edge a couple of months ago to receive OTA programs. It's working well, and I really like the onscreen guide to figure out what's on, and would like to get the same in another room.

Am I understanding correctly that the Mini Lux can do that? Does it add a tuner, or will it use one of the Edge ones to extend the service? I have the Channel Master version from 4ish years ago, and it's only got two tuners. I read something that says the Lux only works with the 4 tuner version.

I'm totally new to the Tivo ecosystem and I'm finding conflicting info, so TIA for any info.

I have five TiVo boxes, from the free original TiVo up to an Edge. Some/most have lifetime subscriptions. Who might want these?

The Comcast’s proprietary signal format killed my ability to use them.

TIVo was great, still the best way to watch TV ever.

If this has been asked before, apologies.

I've read a number of comments saying how "TiVo was mismanaged" and "TiVo failed to do this or that". Meanwhile, I tend of think of TiVo's downfall as a matter of the market moved on from DVR technology.

There are basically three narratives around TiVo's downfall:

1. TiVo was poorly run/mismanaged/didn't innovate.
2. Technology moved on from the disk-based DVR.
3. TiVo was locked out from cable due to the end of CableCard and may be locked out of OTA due to the A3SA DRM on ATSC 3.0.

Obviously the CableCard situation is a reality that was mostly or entirely out of TiVo's control, and even if the FCC had kept the mandate, MSOs are moving to IPTV anyway, which never had open access provisions.

That being said, how much of TiVo's downfall was due to their own mismanagement and lack of innovation, and how much was due to external factors?

Could TiVo have gotten their clearly superior DVR platform into MVPD boxes if they had been managed better? One mismanagement theory is that they were slow to release new software and slow to innovate, another is that their patent trolling turned potential partners away from them, and while they won some battles patent trolling, they lost the war.

If TiVo was better managed, would TiVo still exist as a cord cutting utopia combining ATSC 1.0, ATSC 3.0 (at least for stations not encumbered by the horrendous A3SA DRM), and streaming? Or something else entirely?

I live in Westchester County, NY

My cable cards were deactivated in April.

Today, I called Verizon to ask them for a courtesy refund for deactivating the cable cards, as I saw on Reddit some other people received.

When I explained that I was now paying $20 for the inferior Verizon DVR instead of an already-paid-for superior "TiVo".

The U.S.-based Verizon Fios representative asked, "What's a TiVo?"

I was so shocked & saddened that I immediately decided this was not rep to assist me. I quickly said, "I'm late for work. I gotta go."

Needless to say, I did not get my courtesy refund.

I will call back.

Hi all, been recently having some issues with my Tivo (Spectrum SoCal and the TA stopped working, tho the cablecard is fine; spent the past week trying to figure that out with escalations to cablecard and field support, and hopefully may have some resolution soon), but it got me to thinking...

I still use my Tivo to record mostly network shows and watch them faster with Quickmode on, which I love-that and skipping commercials of course. For streaming, ever since Covid, I've just gone to streaming off my TV, as that's most convenient-I had a Samsung TV and just used the apps on there. Had an Apple TV, but I was like, why bother with another device and dealing with changing inputs and stuff when I can just do it directly on my TV?

When my Samsung TV died a couple years ago I just switched to a Hisense 100" TV and the same holds true as far as I can tell-all the streaming apps are on the TV-including the Spectrum app now, so I can even just watch live TV there too!

Now the question:

I've been bemoaning the balkanization of TV due to streaming; before I could just have everything including premiums coming in my cable, record my shows, and have them all in one place on my Tivo to watch when I wanted. It was great!

So is there anything that can replicate that now with streaming? Could the Tivo Stream do that for me? I don't think the Mini helps with this right?

The main thing I just want is a central interface which has all my (including streaming) shows, that's updated when new episodes or seasons come out, as I lose track nowadays with so many different services and logins etc...

So does something like this exist? I mean, better yet would be if somehow it could download the shows for me as they air, and them let me watch them like they were on my Tivo, but I'm not holding my breath for that... :P

TIA for any info/help!

Was watching Bugs Bunny saw off the state of Florida on MeTV Toons (OTA via antenna) when the screen went black and returned with the "Welcome! Starting Up..." screen that never goes away. Green LED ring in the center and green ring at the left front illuminated.

Retrieved the spare AC adapter from an identical Roamio OTA, and still the same result.

Out of desperation I guess I'll replace the hard drive, but it seems as if the recommended <3TB WD Red 5400 rpm NAS hard drives have been discontinued. Is there a current production recommended replacement hard drive that's just plug and play?

Is this the end, my friend?

Bought a mini to replace mine that died and just got told via chat they will no longer activate any A92 or A93 minis. Does this sound right?

When I was a kid my family had a TiVo Series 3 which stopped working 10+ years ago. Turns out I found a few DVDs that contained some of our old DVR recordings and all the files are .tivo files

I remember a few years back I tried playing them in VLC but the screen was a jumbled mess and no sound

Is there any way I can properly recover these recordings? I heard I need a Media Access Key but since we got rid of the TiVo many moons ago I don't have access to it whatsoever