End of an era.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/tivo-discontinued-its-dvrs

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On 2025-10-15 11:11 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

End of an era.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/tivo-discontinued-its-dvrs

I don't think TiVo ever operated in Canada. I never heard of anyone here
that had one and when I tried to find one in a store or Canadian website several years ago, I came up empty.

There *were* other technologies that did some of what a TiVo did so
maybe they scared TiVo out of the Canadian market.

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On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:32:14 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-10-15 11:11 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

End of an era.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/tivo-discontinued-its-dvrs

I don't think TiVo ever operated in Canada. I never heard of anyone here >that had one and when I tried to find one in a store or Canadian website >several years ago, I came up empty.

They do operate in Canada. Not sure if they sold/supported their DVR
product but they will currently sell you their streaming product even
if you live in Canada.

??[TiVo] works perfectly. It even has a skip mode feature which is
the best thing that I?ve ever seen.?
The Morning Startup, LIVE 88.5 FM Ottawa

There *were* other technologies that did some of what a TiVo did so
maybe they scared TiVo out of the Canadian market.

https://www.tivo.com/ca.
https://www.eastlink.ca/tv-entertainment/tivo-stream/

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no_email@invalid.invalid wrote:

End of an era.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/tivo-discontinued-its-dvrs

I am sure Newport is beside himself with grief.

TBH, I thought they went out of business a decade ago.


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Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

no_email@invalid.invalid wrote:

End of an era.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/tivo-discontinued-its-dvrs

I am sure Newport is beside himself with grief.

TBH, I thought they went out of business a decade ago.

I watched something a couple days ago? Might?ve been THE gLISTENER ? Where
a guy cozied up to his boss by telling him he?d TiVo?s the bosses show and would burn him a copy and bring it into work the next day. I had no idea
TiVo could do that.

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In <1988403693.782336707.946692.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
[snip]

I watched something a couple days ago? Might?ve been THE gLISTENER ? Where
a guy cozied up to his boss by telling him he?d TiVo?s the bosses show and >would burn him a copy and bring it into work the next day. I had no idea
TiVo could do that.

there might, might, have been a model with that. I vaguely remember
seein an advert way back.

however, the "real" way, which I did many a time, was you
could do a WiFi transfer of the stored video to your computer,
and then, *critically*, "de-crypt" it via a standard program [a],
which you could then burn to a DVD, cp to a USB, etc.

[a] I'm not sure where I got the decryption program. It might
have been an official TiVo package, or maybe not... but it worked
fine.



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On 2025-10-15 11:44 p.m., shawn wrote:

On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:32:14 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-10-15 11:11 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

End of an era.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/tivo-discontinued-its-dvrs

I don't think TiVo ever operated in Canada. I never heard of anyone here
that had one and when I tried to find one in a store or Canadian website
several years ago, I came up empty.

They do operate in Canada. Not sure if they sold/supported their DVR
product but they will currently sell you their streaming product even
if you live in Canada.

??[TiVo] works perfectly. It even has a skip mode feature which is
the best thing that I?ve ever seen.?
The Morning Startup, LIVE 88.5 FM Ottawa

There *were* other technologies that did some of what a TiVo did so
maybe they scared TiVo out of the Canadian market.

https://www.tivo.com/ca.

That link just takes me to tivo.com which has no mention of Canada.

https://www.eastlink.ca/tv-entertainment/tivo-stream/

That link lets me choose retail stores that are actually in Canada but
the only two Ontario stores are in Sudbury - which was 5 or 6 hours
drive away when I was in high school but is surely much worse now - and Timmins, which is several hours further still.

In any case, I was talking about the TiVo recorders that you could hook
up to your TV when I said I wasn't able to find them here.

--
Rhino

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danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
[snip]

I watched something a couple days ago... Might've been THE gLISTENER
... Where a guy cozied up to his boss by telling him he'd TiVo's the >>bosses show and would burn him a copy and bring it into work the next
day. I had no idea TiVo could do that.

there might, might, have been a model with that. I vaguely remember
seein an advert way back.

It's the model I own, a Toshiba DVD recorder with built-in TiVo Series2.
Save the stream to the hard drive then copy to DVD-RW (I think it's
minus and not plus) or DVD-R. It's recorded to disc at speed, so you let
it run overnight or when you're not there.

. . .

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:08:32 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-10-15 11:44 p.m., shawn wrote:

On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:32:14 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-10-15 11:11 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

End of an era.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/tivo-discontinued-its-dvrs

I don't think TiVo ever operated in Canada. I never heard of anyone here >>> that had one and when I tried to find one in a store or Canadian website >>> several years ago, I came up empty.

They do operate in Canada. Not sure if they sold/supported their DVR
product but they will currently sell you their streaming product even
if you live in Canada.

??[TiVo] works perfectly. It even has a skip mode feature which is
the best thing that I?ve ever seen.?
The Morning Startup, LIVE 88.5 FM Ottawa

There *were* other technologies that did some of what a TiVo did so
maybe they scared TiVo out of the Canadian market.

https://www.tivo.com/ca.

That link just takes me to tivo.com which has no mention of Canada.

It does if you go through that link. Not sure why but this is the
original link: https://www.tivo.com/ca.srsltid%3DAfmBOorYQedxE83kDxUQJt6S7-UrSfuVYT82BYS1tYGKj5t7Qqgrh_dx

Guess they are rewriting the link..

https://www.eastlink.ca/tv-entertainment/tivo-stream/

That link lets me choose retail stores that are actually in Canada but
the only two Ontario stores are in Sudbury - which was 5 or 6 hours
drive away when I was in high school but is surely much worse now - and >Timmins, which is several hours further still.

In any case, I was talking about the TiVo recorders that you could hook
up to your TV when I said I wasn't able to find them here.

Which is what is on that page as in
"Take the drama out of finding your next drama.
Over-the-air TV. Your favorite streamers. A powerful DVR. One single
device. "

Now are they still going to be making them? Doesn't seem like it but
at least they have made and sold them in Canada. Though it looks like
Tivo never made these, but Arris did make them for Tivo and the cable companies.

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
[snip]

I watched something a couple days ago... Might've been THE gLISTENER
... Where a guy cozied up to his boss by telling him he'd TiVo's the
bosses show and would burn him a copy and bring it into work the next
day. I had no idea TiVo could do that.

there might, might, have been a model with that. I vaguely remember
seein an advert way back.

It's the model I own, a Toshiba DVD recorder with built-in TiVo Series2.
Save the stream to the hard drive then copy to DVD-RW (I think it's
minus and not plus) or DVD-R. It's recorded to disc at speed, so you let
it run overnight or when you're not there.

. . .

Thanks

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