A:AnswerYes,TiVo BOLT VOX replaces your cable box, works with your existing cable service or HD antenna, and gives you innovative features you can’t get anywhere else, like OnePass, SkipMode, QuickMode and more.
A:AnswerI have had TIVO for over 10 years. You do have to get a card from your CABLE company and insert it into the box. Then you typically will have to contact your CABLE company and get it authorized. Took about 15 minutes for me to do it with Spectrum. I have far more recording choices with TIVO, more space to save recordings than Spectrum gave me, and with my Spectrum box, I lost my channels each and every time my box lost electricity and would have to program them in again. With TIVO that does not happen. I gave up TIVO when I moved into a new provider area. Worst mistake I ever made. Lost many options. Now I am back to watching TV the way "I" want to!
A:AnswerTivo is awesome. Love the Bolt unit. There's a monthly fee (or cheaper by the year) because Tivo people put together a custom schedule of programs for your area of the country all the time so your machine can find and record the programs (either on cable or over-the-air broadcast) you want it to automatically. Well worth it in my opinion. Wouldn't want a DVR to work any other way.
A:AnswerYes you will. The subscription is paying for continual updates to the programming guide. This means you can say "record all Walking Dead shows" and it can figure out when it's on. The charge from your cable company for their (probably) crappy DVR is not for the box but for the same programming guide information. People complain about Tivo doing this, but everyone does. The hardware is cheap; the service is expensive to maintain because it changes so much.
The cable card is only used to unscramble the signal from the cable company. It is what you have instead of a cable box, which typically costs much more over time than what you spend on a Tivo. But the Tivo doesn't suck. :)
A:AnswerNo. The lifetime subscription is $550. It's $14.99 a month, $150 a year, or $550 for life, paying for itself in less than 4 years. It's worth it.
A:AnswerIt has four tuners to record and/ or watch whatever you’re subscribed to. Meaning you can record four shows, or record three while watching a different channel. Keep in mind, all satellite boxes (minis) feed off the receiver and will utilize the same four tuners.
A:AnswerIt has 4 tuners, so you can either record 4 shows at the same time while watching something that is already on your DVR, or you can watch one channel and record three other programs
A:AnswerWith the TiVo service you can add other TVs in your house without paying an additional monthly fee. You can also get inhome DVR access on your other TVs. Cable can’t do that at this time. That is why I bought a TiVo bolt box and a mini box when I switched from directv.
A:AnswerTivo has a lot of options for watching recorded shows on your mobile devices without exporting to other storage. I do not think there is an option for exporting recordings in file format to non-Tivo devices.
Note that I added an external Western Digital eSata drive to my Tivo Bolt to extend its memory in case I need extra storage in the future.
A:AnswerI have 2 old TiVos. I plug the old one in and watch when I want to see things on them. They will not be able to record once you switch to a new TiVo, but the old recordings can still be watched.
I have never seen anything about moving recordings, but you can save shows to your computer.
