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Question: Can I use this DVR and pay the service fee as a replacement for cable?
Document: I really like that I can pay a one time fee & never have to pay to use the DVR again. I also like the integration of many external features such as Netflix.
It is hard to justify the expense and the monthly service fee for not that much different in terms of capabilities. And the loss of the cable company's On Demand service tips the scales in my opinion. Wish I would have saved my money and just stuck with the cable DVR.UPDATE:Less than a week after writing this review, the unit's hard drive failed. After 4 months of use. Of course, I assumed that there was a 1 year manufacturer's warranty on the unit. Guess what? Nope.
This will also allow you to stream pics and music through your TiVo so you can hear it on your TV or your Home Theater. You can set shows to record from your phone or your computer. TiVo will even suggest shows for you. There's even a couple of games  to play on the TiVo. I can go on and on. My whole family is hooked. My only complaint is the increase in the monthly service fee of $19.99, which I only pay for the Premiere.
One of Tivo's most appealing original features was the ability to skip commercials, but now Tivo has diminished that benefit by selling advertising space on its own interface. Advertising should not be a mandatory part of a "premium" service for which you pay a substantial fee.
A monthly or lifetime service fee may be a deal breaker for some, but the approximately fifteen dollars per month is probably about the same as your rental fee from the cable company on your existing DVR. The live and archived TV features that you can add with the separately sold Tivo Stream unit, while fantastic, are arguably something that should be built into the unit.
), and app support is a complete joke. If you want to launch the Youtube app, be prepared to look at an ugly slow interface that has minimal functionality.Yes, having four tuners has been great. I no longer have to fight with the girlfriend over shows in the Season Pass queue, and the picture quality is phenomenal. Overall I was expecting much more from a $400 cable box which I have to pay a monthly fee for.
The TiVo fee is a few dollars more per month than the FIOS DVR but you also have to rent a cable card for the TiVo from your cable provider (which is another few dollars). Also, DVRs such as the TiVo that use a cable cable card don't have a way for you to order video on demand from your cable provider. This has not been an issue for us.
We had a DVR from our cable company that would always miss show, it would always be full, and we had to add show to record when they were in season. All of those problems are gone, while we had to pay for the DVR and the service we get what we paid for, great HD recording that we do not need to delete every week because we are out of space. We can also off load some shows and expand our DVR capacity, who would love that.
I like not having to use serveral Tivos to record shows on at the same time. I love the 4 tuners. The Hulu sucked because you have to pay for the service and you still get the same amount of commercials plus the show I weanted to watch did not work I kept getting an error. I also miss not having Blockbuster.
I got a 1st series Tivo at Walmart in 2001 without knowing anything about Tivo, (neither Walmart employees new anything about the wired button-less appliance looking thing), Once I figured it out on  my own, and used it for a week or so, I bought the lifetime service for my Tivo. I didn't hesitate much, before I decided to pay 300 bucks for its life-time subscription, once I discover all of its features, convenience and easiness of use.
Answer: It does connect to sites like Netflix Amazon etc. however it replaces your cable box for watching television shows. You will still need to subscribe to cable to get TV channels