I purchased a TiVo Roamio and two TiVo Minis and saved $540 year because I did not have to rent 3 cable boxes at $15 a month. In two years the savings covered my up front costs of buying the TiVo Roamio two TiVo minis and the lifetime subscription. I purchased in October of 2014 and I am still using the same Roamio. 6 year savings is $3,240!

I cut the cord 5 years ago but I think I’m gonna go back to cable. I think I’ll get cable but trim the cost with a cable card.

Should also make the remote backlit. Definitely agree the selection/navigation buttons and play/pause/forward/rewind buttons should have their positions switched.

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

They now have a replacement remote that is backlit, but its another 50.00.

@brodieharley7040

2 жыл бұрын

I dont mean to be offtopic but does any of you know a method to get back into an instagram account?? I was stupid forgot the password. I appreciate any help you can give me

@bakerkyson2450

2 жыл бұрын

@Brodie Harley instablaster =)

I got a TiVo bolt vox 500 gig that does cable and ota. I use charter cable with it and now thinking about getting the TiVo mini vox for my second tv. To bad the TiVo Edge didn’t offer a mini vox like experience without another cable card.

Yes, the TIVO remote should be backlit like the XFinity. Except, the XFinity goes black too quickly and I had to keep shaking it in frustration to find the button I wanted to press. I almost threw it across the room many times before I "cut the cord" and now only have Comcast internet, which I love. My TIVO Bolt OTA is ordered and should be here this week. I live in Houston, TX and have no problem with accessing more OTA channels than I want, most of them in Spanish, however. Go figure.

Are there different types of cable cards? Like a cable card for let's say 120 channels? A cable card for 120 channels plus movie channels?

I currently use a Roku Ultra with PLEX, Amazon Prime and Netflix and an antenna for live, local TV (News). Thinking I could use this Tivo as a way to store plex's live TV shows, I got one off ebay. Because I don't have cable or a network card, when I ran a scan with Tivo, it lowered my 1080p TV 's resolution to 480i LOL. With my current setup, I'm afraid of activating a Tivo subscription since I may also have to go back to cable. Could a Tivo subscription work as OTA with my antenna and no network card?

Nice vid. Just a heads up. The first cable card from Comcast is supposed to be free, meaning no monthly fees. Don’t let them shaft you.

@MooseTurder

5 жыл бұрын

I also get a $2.50 credit "owned equipment" from comcast on top of the included cable card. Too bad its sucked away from the "broadcast TV" and "local sports" fees :(

@LovethisNation

5 жыл бұрын

Christopher Sutter I don’t get that $2.50 credit. Is that something unique to you or is it something i can claim by default because i have my own equipment?

Hi Sean….OK, I’m confused. On the back of the Bolt you said there is one coax connector, which is the cable provider coax INPUT. How do you connect the output from the Bolt to a Mini Vox? Does your house have to be wired for Ethernet? I currently have Frontier FIOS and in the den have a large TV and large set top box (STB) and in two bedrooms have two small TVs and two STBs. In each of those three rooms I have a wall jack with two coax connectors. I’d like to replace all three STBs with a Bolt and two Mini Voxs. Since the Bolt does not have a coax OUT connector, is there a way to connect the output from the Bolt to the Mini Voxs using my existing (coax) house wiring? Is there an adapter that could connect the Bolt output to my den coax wall jack (and on to the bedrooms)? I think the Mini Voxs won’t be a problem. It looks like you simply just run a coax wire from your bedroom coax wall jack and connect to the coax connector on the back of the Mini but how do I connect the Bolt to the two Minis? P.S. I have a Frontier router but it’s in a different room and not in the den or bedrooms. Thanks, Steve

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

The main Tivo Bolt has to have a wired ethernet connection to your home network. You can setup a MoCa coaxial connection too if you want instead of hard wired Ethernet to the minis, but it is not simple as screwing in a coaxial cable. You have to setup a Moca network. Usually requires filters on the inbound cable from your cable company. If you go to Tivo's website they have all the guides how to set it up using coaxial connections.

Does it work with sling tv

Nice, but I needed to see step by step how to connect the tivo mini lux box. Thank you

@seanstraindepot

3 жыл бұрын

Its just 3 steps. Plug into your network cable, plug into outlet, follow onscreen setup. It must connect to the same network as your Bolt. They are not wireless. However, Tivo has since released a wireless adapter you can buy to plug into it if you don't have ethernet cable wherever you are placing it. But that was not available when I made the video.

A lot of your explanation would be great for a blind person.

Can you watch all your Xfinity channels on the TiVo mini vox well? Does the mini need to be hooked to a coaxial or will the mini act like a wireless cable box letting watch all my Xfinity channels?

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

The mini’s act as satellites from the dvr, so yes you get everything that’s on main dvr, channels, recordings etc. the mini needs to be hooked up by Ethernet cable , or moca coaxial setup. But TiVo now has a wireless adapter you can get instead of those 2 types of connections. A strong wireless connection would be needed if you buy the wireless adapter. The mini itself is not wireless, so you need the additional adapter for wireless. My Orbi network satellites have Ethernet connections so that how I set up mine.

Since you have Comcast, do you have plenty of cable channels from them that you pay for or do you have several apps that you pay for to watch television shows and movies?

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

I have Comcast and then Netflix I pay for. Amazon Prime video comes free with my Prime membership. I also have HBO through comcast. I am not a fan of all the streaming apps. Just want once place for everything and Tivo does that for me.

@Duveve

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanstraindepot How much total you pay for tivo, comcast card, and internet,

Comcast cable cards are free with a $2.50 discount for each card in mpls minn.

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Varies by your region.

My cable card went bad in my vox. Trying to remove it, for me, was near impossible. The card was installed by Comcast, I had no idea where or how he put it in. Your video showed me. However, now that green tab is stuck under the piece of metal it's supposed to go over. The vox is still acting up. Yes, i think the card was bad, but i think something is also wrong with this box. We've been faithful with tivo since '03. Pretty sure this is our last box.

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like comcast ruined the card and possible cable box by installing it wrong. Can't really fault Tivo for that.

@luv2garden132

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanstraindepotOh, no, it was installed properly. TiVo makes the card impossible to remove by having it in the bottom and with the need to move the green tab to release the card. If was a simple push in the back or front as previous models, I wouldn't have bent anything or the green tab wouldn't have flipped under the metal piece it goes over. Have your vox above your shoulders, your wife's actually, have her pretend she's on the phone, the vox is plugged into everything, she's doing this alone. I disconnected the hdmi and power, however it was hanging by the cable chest high. I'm not an idiot..lol...when it comes to TiVos, however this box, with the card in the bottom, the latches spread farther apart then my fingers could reach, trying to do this while it was hanging. Perhaps I should have disconnected the whole thing and laid it down. I still don't think I could have slid the card out. Yesterday I had my husband try. He had difficulty. It's a bad design, plain and simple. I liked TiVo a lot better when it was actually owed by TiVo. 24/7 help CS. You don't get that now with whatever company bought them. This vox restarts constantly. That's not a card that did that. That's a faulty box, I've had enough boxes, going back to a SD def 2 box that required no card, only a cable connection.

Is your Orbi hardwired or just wireless?

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

The Orbi are wireless satellites that connect to the Orbi router

TIVO guide seems speedier than Xfinity's X1 guide

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah its super fast.

@JediMastr80

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I have an X1 box and I can easily see the delay on the Comcast box. The TiVO box looks much faster and the text doesn't do that annoying "pop in" like it does on Comcast as it wasn't loaded. Watching you scroll through, the text for the guide is already there, no delay for it to populate. Kinda pathetic Xfinity STILL hasn't upgraded their DVR box with something better (with larger HD). I already plan to save up to get a TiVO Bolt VOX. Being able to backup my recordings to an External HD and free up space will be nice, especially when I have a 2nd computer with a Plex Server on it, which could then be streamed extra recordings to my Smart TV in the Living Room. Besides, my X1 DVR is starting to have issues with it with channels not wanting to load and I'm afraid when I call in, they are going to say I have to replace the DVR, which would be all records would be lost (since Cloud DVR sucks and only saves a fraction of them).

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

@@JediMastr80eah, I know its the future but still not a fan of cloud based DVR's.

@Dlite2323

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanstraindepot I use a streaming App (SoPlayer) can I use the TiVo with that? (Do you know about the app SoPlayer)

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

What do you mean use with it? Tivo is just like a cable box basically. So you can use the streaming apps inside it, or you can use your own streamer. You would just switch inputs on your TV as with any devices connected to it.@@Dlite2323

Can the Mini Vox work with the older regular Bolts or do I need the Bolt Vox to work with the Mini Vox?

@seanstraindepot

2 жыл бұрын

Good question, not sure on that one. I thought any Bolt should work as it is about the software not hardware.

I have spectrum I had problems with my cable card and the spectrum guy came and did the set up process? I wish I could do it myself and save 49.99

Great video. You’ve got me thinking. I have the Orbi with 2 satellites. Would I be able to connect the main tivo box into a satellite in one room, as well as the mini into a separate satellite?

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

I would NOT recommend the main unit being connected to anything but direct ethernet or MOCA. I think you would have delay issues.

@MooseTurder

5 жыл бұрын

Does the Orbi allow you to see your satellites' connection strength? I've been using the Unifi access points with wireless uplinks wired to a tivo mini in another room. My uplink strength is 80% (300 mbs) and I have not had any connectivity issues with my mini. If your orbi's satellite's uplink connection is poor, expect tv signal issues.

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

I am not sure if having the main one on an orbi would give the best picture, but you could try it. There is a little lag on response sometimes with the orbi &mini. The main one should be hardwired directly in my opinion since the minis all use that one for the feed. Again Tivo itself will not give any support to any connection except hardwired direct.

@CONCRETEJUNGLE-be6ic

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanstraindepot Does this work for Cablevison,cause Cablevision doesn’t have a card.

Thanks buddy, this is helpful as I'm supposed to receive my Bolt Vox and Mini Vox later today and now I have a better idea how the setup works. My home TV setup is much like yours -- my family has been using a plain Verizon FiOS STB for 7 years, but now we finished our basement and want to have a second TV capable of live TV, and I *hate* the STB racket so I did the lifetime Bolt Vox plan. I'll end up paying $5/mo to Verizon for the CableCARD versus paying them $24/mo for two STBs, and will also get DVR which the FiOS boxes didn't have unless i paid even more. It was $549 for the lifetime TiVO plan, which (at a savings of $19/mo versus two STBs from Verizon) will pay for itself in 29 months (or 2.4 years). I'm curious: I see you connected the coax cable to your Bolt Vox as well as an Ethernet cable. My FiOS STB uses coax only, so I have coax available to hook up to the Bolt Vox, and the FiOS router is MOCA 2.0, so do you think I need to connect ethernet to the Bolt Vox as well? I do have Ethernet available near the where the Bolt Vox will go as well as where the Mini Vox will go, just need to add a network switch in both those locations to allow me to connect multiple devices to the Ethernet wall jack. Also -- I've never had TiVo or a DVR before so I'm pretty excited -- the last time I had the ability to record live TV was as a kid in the 80s/90s with my parents' VCR. Ha!

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

You will love it, its is a great system. As far as ethernet goes you either need that or need a MOCA network so the Mini can connect with the Bolt. Sounds like you have MOCA, and there are setup instructions in the box for that, I just am not sure how that works exactly. It says it requires certain filter on the coax line etc, Ethernet is just easier if available. The coax cable going into the Bolt is the Comcast cable feed, not using it for MOCA. The ethernet is for Internet access (for the guide, Netflix, etc) and for the Mini Vox to connect to the Bolt. The only reason I did not go for lifetime plan is that it goes with the device. So if your Bolt fails, you lose the lifetime plan. It can't be transferred to a new Bolt. That is the catch.

Can I use another Volt as an extender? They're on sale right now and cheaper than the Mini.

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you can connect multiple Bolts the same way as the Mini's.

Why didn't you get a cable card for your bolt and two mini's? Then you can get rid of the cable box. I just saw that you did use the cable card. My bad

What if your tired of DirecTv and or cable itself, and you only want TiVo for over the air television watching? If you out right buy a TiVo Bolt Vox is service free for life? If so where is least expensive place to buy it or should a person by from TiVo? I'm not interested in paying for other movie/tv show services anymore. Please explain????

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Tivo makes OTA models too. Just go on their website and they show you the OTA models and their cost. I am pretty sure there is still a monthly charge because of the guide, etc. but its like 14.99, no where near a Direct TV bill.

Is there still commercial blocking protocols with the latest TIVO gear?

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Commercials are not blocked. They never have been. They Auto Skip.

@gmichaelprice668

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanstraindepot you say tomaytos I say tomahtos. Either way it's good news.

I have a Bolt that's being used for OTA, not cable TV (it's a 1st gen Bolt that can be used for either). I'm not sure how to connect the Mini when it's asking for MoCa or ethernet.

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure if the Minis connect to gen 1 models. Might have to contact Tivo or go on the Tivo forum and search or post a question. www.tivocommunity.com

Is there any subscription fee for tivo like Netflix or Is it just over the air with your antenna

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, like everything these days there is a monthly fee for TiVo service, although OTA is half the cost of the cable.

@nickedens3358

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanstraindepot how much would it be if u just used the app

Can they be watched independently? Can I watch different channels on the minis

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

Can you access all or most of the TIVO box functions through the TIVO app? Like can you reboot your TIVO box through the app?

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can manage the main things. Recordings (which you can also watch in the app), settings, all tivo devices, restart, Channel guide, remote, etc Not every nitty gritty setting on the main tivo that are like one time setup things.

@benster5

5 жыл бұрын

Cool. Really considering ditching all my Xfinity boxes for TIVO but want to make sure I'm not sacrificing some useful functions that come with X1. Currently, I have the X1 main box and two of the mini extension boxes.

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

Oh I see. Well I don't know the X1 system, I had the old Motorola DVR. I tried the X1 system about a year ago, but the image on my TV was heavily degraded by their web based DVR. Technician said it was because they had to compress everything so much. The Motorola DVR was crystal clear. But did not have whole house DVR. So Tivo is both now plus all built in streaming apps, and a great guide. But is does cost 14.99 a month plus the cable card fee (mine is 7.00 per month). The one touch commercial skip is so, so nice though. I had to do 30 skips with the Motorola box.

@UttRConcrete

5 жыл бұрын

Do u need to be on the same WiFi to access the app?

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

Yes your phone or tablet needs to be on same network.

can you use the cable card from an old tivo, or do you need a new one

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

Cable cards are from the cable company and standard, so if you have one in your old Tivo, you can use it in your new one. You will just have to pair it to your new Tivo.

@SlimHx

4 жыл бұрын

Sean's Trains, Cars and Other Stuff Channel So any cable card will be capable of viewing 4k programming if placed in a 4k tivo box?

@seanstraindepot

4 жыл бұрын

There are very few cable companies with much if any actual 4K programming, most is just 1080 HD. But if you have a few channels that are actually broadcast in 4K and your cable company has a cable card that supports 4K then yes. Otherwise it would just be regular HD, although your TV may upscale it to near 4K depending on your TV.

Can you add tivo to a savant system?

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

I do not know what Savant is sorry.

Can you add TiVo to Verizon Fios

@timf76

4 жыл бұрын

yes

@crazy4maxima

3 жыл бұрын

I'm looking to do this very thing with fios. TIRED of paying 20 month for 6 show dvr plus 12 for the box. 32 a month for one tv. Looking at this you can add mini for cheaper and not pay extra for tuner. So example. 3 rooms at 12 bucks plus dvr 56 month. vs 14.99 tivo plus 5.00 cable card 19 month and have 3 rooms with the additional boxes if purchase

We got a Tivo Bolt with the intention of using a cable card from Verizon. We've tried three different cards so far and haven't been able to get any of them to receive verizon channels. Tivo is telling us verizon must not be doing something correctly. Verizon is telling us something might be wrong with the box. We don't know what else we can do. Is there a specific button to Get to live tv, other than the LiveTV button? Are we in the wrong input or something? Should we be able to See tv behind the app squares like in your video? We're so frustrated.

@seanstraindepot

2 жыл бұрын

If it is a new Tivo, it's unlikely its defective. Sounds like a Verizon pairing issue. You might want to join the Tivo forum. You will probably get an answer there.

@seanstraindepot

2 жыл бұрын

www.tivocommunity.com/

what about the cost of basic cable?

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

You still have to pay for cable, it’s just the cost for extra boxes, TVs and DVR fees you are eliminating.

@JonneytheKidd

5 жыл бұрын

Sean's Trains, Cars and Other Stuff Channel Thank you for replying back. Did you know that cable companies no longer require you to rent the cable boxes.

@seanstraindepot

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure what you mean. Comcast , which is my only choice, does require a box for each TV.

@ImACarbonCopy

4 жыл бұрын

@@seanstraindepot no sir I have comcast and NO boxes. I use 4 roku boxes and xfinity stream app with 20gig cloud dvr. Included

@netmn4406

4 жыл бұрын

@@ImACarbonCopy The roku app is still in beta and once brought out to production, will include a set top box fee for each roku used.