A:AnswerYes, it does. If your'e using it with cable you get a cablecard from your cable company, which depending on the company is either free, or a few dollars a month. The Tivo then replaces any cable box you may have been using (and is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than cable DVRs). Just make sure the cable company quits charging you for the cable box after you give it back!
A:AnswerOne comes with a year of free service and the other does not and its a $100 dollar diffence, but the ones that come with the year of free TiVo service won't last long because TiVo is no longer shipping them out.
A:AnswerI was on with Spectrum (Formerly Time Warner) Cable Card tech support for about 20 minutes with each box (I have 2)
Once the Cable Card (and requires cable tuner box which the cable company should supply w/card) was inserted it went through some updates and installs and then tells you to call your cable provider cable service. For Spectrum, this tech support was separate from normal customer care.
My two cents...
A:AnswerThis depends on the content being recorded. The base model with a 500 GB hard drive can hold about 75 hours of HD content and several times that much of SD material. There is an eSATA port that allows additional drive space to be added but the company currently only supports one model that is hard to find and rather overpriced compared to other common products of the type. It is hoped that TiVo will certify a newer drive model soon, so that adding several TB of capacity will carry a reasonable price.
A:AnswerJust to add to what the other poster said, besides paying monthly and lifetime, there's also a third yearly option, which is cheaper than monthly, but costs more than lifetime (assuming you use lifetime long enough to break even, of course).
A:AnswerI claim BS, I already had a yearly subscription for a TIVO Premiere. When I tried to transfer the current subscription to the TIVO Bolt I purchased from BEST BUY I was told that because I did not buy the BOLT from TIVO I could not transfer the existing subscription to the new BOLT. I was told that if I returned the BOLT to Best Buy and purchased a BOLT from TIVO that it could be transferred. I have ended up with a annual subscription for the TIVO Premiere that can be used as a small boat anchor, and I now have to pay $14.99 a month for the BOLT. If I didn't dislike TIME WARNER (SPECTRUM) so much I would tell TIVO to stuff their service. So, to answer your question, nothing is free!!!!
A:Answeran M-card is a cable card that you get form your cable provider (it is a replacement for a cable box and is charged to your cable bill at a much lower rate).
It is what allows your cable company to give the TiVo access to all the channels and on demand that you subscribe to
A:AnswerThe Bolt doesn't include service. You'd want to check Tivo's site, but you can pay for lifetime, yearly, or monthly.
The Roamio OTA model doesn't work with cable, but does include lifetime service.
A:AnswerYes I just noticed mine has Vudu when I was looking in my shows line up in Onepass. I feel that the hardware increases the OTA picture quality. Plus, it's a 4K device, so you should get a very nice picture when streaming video, as long as you had a good, fast ISP (Internet Service Provider).
A:AnswerIt used to but the cable company is going all digital, box required everywhere by the end of 2017. Had to get a cable card for 2 bucks a month, it included the required digital adapter.
A:AnswerYes. You will need to obtain a multi-stream cable card from your cable tv provider. It installs in the bottom of the unit. During setup, you will need to call both your cable provider and Tivo to get the card activated.
Tivo is not plug and play like a DVD player but once you have it set up, you will never watch TV the same way again.
Good luck and enjoy!
