[House] TiVO Options

[Ruth Anne]

#3 would have been the better investment if we did it last year. :/ 
Given that, I think we could go with the 1 year commitment of option 
2.

I too am happy enough with our setup until it exploads.

On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> If people think #3 is the better investment, I can certainly front
> the money.
>
> -Robin
>
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 05:05:32PM -0700, RJ Johnson wrote:
>> I say option 2 unless you want to front option 3 and have the house pay you
>> back over time. Mostly this is based on my not having a job yet.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Robin Lee Powell <
>> rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So, I'm pretty happy with our current TiVO until it explodes (which
>>> it may be working on, but lately it seems like all the "might be the
>>> hard drive" troubles have stopped).  It seems to me like the only
>>> reason we'd want to get a https://www.tivo.com/shop/roamio would be
>>> because the YouTube and Netflix interfaces suck, and in that case
>>> we've got the PS3, or we could get another chromecast; I can't see
>>> spending $200+ for that.
>>>
>>> So, given that, it's worth noting that our contract is about to end.
>>> We can:
>>>
>>> 1.  Pay $20/month with no contract
>>>
>>> 2.  Pay $15/month with a 1 year commitment
>>>
>>> 3.  Pay $400 forever (I think; it might be $500).  That's 2.5 years
>>> or so at the 1 year commitment rate, and less than 2 years at the
>>> month-to-month rate.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> -Robin
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