“If I use the "TiVo Bolt Vox 1TB" with my existing cable tv service and I'm using their cable card, do I still need to pay for a TiVo subscription service? My cable service is Mediacom.”
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Yes 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. :)
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes. If you want to use guide to auto record. Manual recording no you don't.
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