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Question: Does this require a monthly subscription to use the Program Guide when watching Over-The-Air TV?
Document: I couldn't be happier with my TiVo Roamio! It is the center of my digital and Live TV entertainment. Uncompressed Over-the-Air (OTA) TV channels, excellent recordings, Netflix, Youtube and Amazon Instant Video (all current clients). The low monthly fee (or Lifetime service) provides 2 weeks of Guide Data. Search works across TV, Netflix and Youtube content. It is the only box connected to my TV.
We were paying $110 to a brand name TV provider for years, more for the 6 months with Sports Ticket payments. First TiVo Premiere and now TiVo Roamio changed all that. We use an antenna to get OTA channels and bought a lifetime subscription to TiVo programming. We can record our favorite shows effortlessly, just like before, but no high monthly bill. True I no longer see every Patriots football game, but we get a lot of them OTA.
Don't let yourself suffer another day with that terrible cable box provided by the cable company. The TV watching experience is so much better with TiVo and you'll probably pay less monthly. Time Warner cable was charging me almost $25 bucks a month to use the most frustrating piece of tech in my house.
And if you subscribe to Hulu pus then you really are all set... but I got this to stop paying for TV shows... Netflix I dont mind because my kids use is so heavily for watching on the Ipad Iphone etc. The only complaints I have is that this is the only device you get to watch over the air shows the more advanced models &#34;Roamio plus&#34; are cable only... really Tivo?!?
Does the job of pausing, recording and skipping through live TV very well.I use an over-the-air antenna and it is a great way to handle recording live TV.I also find the tuners are more sensitive that any of the other OTA tuners I have installed in my TV's.Still not happy about the monthly charge but I decided to live with it.
This product is a reasonable alternative to those tired of paying high prices for cable or satellite. The monthly fee is a bit excessive in my opinion, but it is cheap when compared to the other options. The best feature is the four off-air tuners that allow us to use a quality TV antenna to receive local channels at no cost. I would recommend this product.
Jusy got my Tivo Roamio set up tonight, and I already love how it organizes my shows. Season Pass manager is very reminiscent to Direct TV...very simple to use. If you are in the market for an over the air DVR this baby is for you!! The only downside is a monthly subscrption fee....I feel this could be a little lower, but still a lot less than I was paying for Dish ! !
I returned the item since they require it to be activated with a monthly fee. My purpose of purchasing it was to use it as a simple recorder that uses a hard drive. I thought this would allow me to fast forward commercials to shorten my viewing time of recorded programs however I don't want their programing service. It total lacks decent reference to this fact and relies on the customer to figure out that they will get locked into a monthly fee.
We will go for 6 months to see whether we end up watching everything online or if there is any value at all in watching/recording OTA shows. Our viewing habits are not high volume and we don't have to see HBO or Netflix shows the minute they come out.Pro:Customer support was goodvideo quality is very goodbasic guide is good for OTAYoutube casting built inCon:Amazon Prime is missingAnother monthly feeregular hulu missingRequires another streaming box (ROKU, sony Blu Ray players, chromecast, etc)
I bought the TiVo Roamio after cutting my Bell satellite service and installing an over the air antenna on my roof. I decided to pay the $14 a month for the program guide and recording function which really makes this device first class. It was easy to get it to scan the channels and I like the many ways the channel and program information is arranged on the screen.
Answer: You can buy a stand alone OTA DVR from other companies that do not require a subscription, and use the program guide direct from the TV stations. The guide will normally be only 4-12 hours into the future whereas Tivo will be a week or two. The OTA EPG guides can also have errors and many stations do not maintain them properly; many just show the name of the program and no other information, IF THAT. (The difference is quite noticeable.) Setting up recording is like an old VCR... you tell it channel number, time on and time off. It doesn't know repeats or if a showtime was changed, etc. With the Tivo, you can set up 'Season pass' where it will record the shows automatically, skip repeats and make adjustments for programming changes. It has very complete episode information and Tivo will 'learn what you like' then recommend shows for you. You get a lot for that $15 a month. I am currently using a standalone OTA DVR and I am considering going back to Tivo now that they have a better unit... it's worth it.