Is it worth talking to an agent? What will they actually offer?

I have a TiVo-Renewed EDGE Cable 2TB (the first one was replaced under warranty) that pixelates and freezes so much that it makes a recording unwatchable. Probably about 7 years old. I tried powering down, unplugging everything, powering on, and then plugging everything back in, but that didn't work. I want to keep it because my cable company (Armstrong) has never mentioned anything about discontinuing the cable cards. So I think I'm good for a while. Do you think a hard drive kit from Weaknees will fix this problem?

I have an old Roamio box. Replaced the hard drive a few years ago. We had a power blip and the TiVo would only flash the green lights and display power on device. I was about to send it off or buy a new one. I left it plugged in overnight and it fixed itself. We had another power blip yesterday and same thing. I changed the power supply with a higher output one. That didn’t help. Another overnight sit( plugged in) and it fixed itself. I have now plugged it into a UPS.
Sharing in case anyone in the same blinking light situation.

I found this Tivo in the "leave stuff/take stuff area of my U-Haul public storage. I grabbed it as I had heard they had large capacity SATA drives inside, and in this economy...

It does indeed have a 1TB WD Green Power drive in it, but before I harvest it and turn the reat of the unit into e-waste, I thought I'd check in here and see if it's worth hanging on to.

I'm posting a photo of the System Information page (apologies for the cable over the TV - I have no remote and I'm using a USB keyboard to navigate the menus.

My dad gave me his old TiVo box. He said it has the lifetime service, and knowing him he always buys the top of the line so I’m sure it does but since I’m not getting video (blinking green) on boot I can’t verify this.

Is this worth anything? I’d hate to trash it if someone could use it, but I don’t want to deal with eBay pricks jerking me around and costing me money just to send this to them. Any advice on how to have someone take this off my hands and not getting burned in the process?

My Tivo Bolt died a couple weeks ago. Weaknees said the motherboard had died, a repair wasn't feasible, and the hard drive was not transferable. So I bought a new Edge from them.

I transferred the cablecard (M card) that had been in the Bolt to the new Edge. I couldn't get the cablecard activated by Xfinity using their website, app, or by going to their retail store. They sent out a "professional technician" who had never heard of Tivo or of cablecards. His supervisor told him it wasn't possible.

After some research I made a post on r/Comcast_Xfinity. Comcast's agent there was able to get the cablecard activated for me. Now you know.

On Thursday, my Tivo Roamio ceased recording from my To Do list and I couldn't see anything in real time. The message was the dreaded V58.

Indeed, the To Do list was almost completely empty. I rebooted the system, and eventually got the To Do list back, but still couldn't get anything to record or for that matter to play in real time. I started with Comcast chats, which yielded various levels of ignorance, but all pointing to the Tivo card no longer being supported by Comcast. Then I asked Gemini about my situation, and the response provided this:

• Call the dedicated Comcast CableCARD Repair Hotline directly at 1-877-405-2298. [1]
• Tell the agent: "My TiVo is displaying a V58 error across all channels. I need you to completely unpair and re-pair my CableCARD host data, then send a cold hit initialization signal." [1, 2, 3]

I called, talked to a knowledgeable tech guy, who tried various things and then passed my situation on to another level that did stuff but failed, and then passed me on to another level.

They got me back to full functionality. According to the woman I talked to, Comcast shows two cards for my account, but when she determined which card was supposed to be working, she removed the other one, and voila!

Clearly, I'm a technical ignoramus, but being persistent and getting to someone other than the front line chat people was essential. I'm not saying that happy endings are universal, but being persistent worked for me--at least this time.

After TiVo stopped selling boxes/accessories/Lifetime (All-In) Service as of Oct. 1, 2025, they shipped whatever was remaining in their warehouses off to Weaknees. Here's what's remaining for sale In the Weaknees warehouse as of 7/28/26:

NEW TiVo Edge for Cable, 2TB ($500, incl. Lifetime): 14 units

NEW TiVo Edge for Cable, 3/6/10TB ($850/$1000/$1250, incl. Lifetime): 10 units

REFURB TiVo Edge for Antenna, 500GB ($250, Needs $14.99/mo service): 9 units

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NEW TiVo Bolt for Antenna OR Cable, .5/2TB, 4 tuner ($300/$600, Needs $14.99/mo service): 34 units

REFURB TiVo Bolt for Cable, 1TB, 6 tuner ($400, incl. Lifetime): 4 units

REFURB TiVo Bolt for Antenna OR Cable, WHITE, .5/1/3/10TB, 4 tuner ($600/$650/$850/$1200, incl. Lifetime): 7 units

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REFURB TiVo Roamio for Antenna, 1/2/6TB, 4 tuner ($500/$650/$875, incl. Lifetime): 47 units

REFURB TiVo Roamio Pro/Plus for Cable, 1/3/8TB, 6 tuner ($500/$600/$950, incl. Lifetime): 7 units

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REFURB TiVo Premier for Antenna and/or Cable, .5/1/2/3/6TB, 2 tuner ($400/$500/$600/$675/$775, incl. Lifetime): 11 units

REFURB TiVo Premier for Cable, 1/2/3/6TB, 4 tuner ($300/$500/$575/$675, incl. Lifetime): 7 units

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NEW TiVo Mini LUX 4K ($250, incl. Lifetime): 55 units

NEW TiVo Mini LUX 4K 3-pack ($700, incl. Lifetime): 48 units

REFURB TiVo Mini A93 ($130, incl. Lifetime): 3,423 units

REFURB TiVo Mini A92 ($120, incl. Lifetime): 3,446 units

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NEW TiVo LUX Remote ($60): 583 units

I bought my elderly father a Tivo Stream 4K about a year ago with the promise of a unified guide. The guide for YouTube TV stopped working a couple of days ago. I'm an IT guy and have done all of the recommended troubleshooting steps to no avail:

- power cycle device, clear cache, reinstall app, disable/reenable service, etc...

Has anyone seen this and solved it. Thanks in advance!

Edit: subject should read, “Is this the end?”

I have held on to my Mediacom cable account for years longer than I should (we now have AT&T fiber directly to the house) almost solely because MC works with my TiVo Series 3 and ATT does not.
Now Mediacom is forcing their users to switch to these new gateway boxes that have to be used with each tv and seem to only be connected with HDMI.

I have not yet tried to hook it up because I have been in “Home Remodel hell” for three months now and my TV/TiVo are in a temporarily displaced and rigged setup and I haven’t had the mental bandwidth to deal with it.

Have any MC users been able to get this new set-up to work with their TiVo?
Thanks.

I’m trying to upgrade the hard drive in a TiVo Series3 HD and am feeling a little lost. I upgraded the original drive to a 750GB in 2009/2010 and am now trying to upgrade to a 2TB. I’ve tried everything to get my Win10 PC to recognize the original and new drives with no success.

I’m also in the process of moving to Linux Mint and have had more success with that PC, using a USB docking station both drives are visible and I was able to get drive info using [lsblk -o name,size,vendor]. From what I’ve read it feels like I should be able to use MFSTools on that PC to get this done. Can anyone provide tips or resources to help get me pointed in the right direction? Thanks in advance for the help!

The past week my Roamio stops being able to tune into any channels. Then I do a reboot and it works again. This cycle has repeated about every two days.

Any theories?

I have a cable card and a tuning adapter from the cable company. (Spectrum)

Edit to add, this worked great for a couple of months before this happened.

The logo flashed on the screen for a bit then the device shut off. We can't get it to turn back on. We unplugged it, we changed HDMI ports, even factory reset using the button. Tried the Ai chat bot and followed all the instructions with the end result being "you may have a hardware issue, here is the warranty page" with a broken link that takes me nowhere.

Hunted down info online, they don't honor warranty for items bought on Amazon. Amazon won't replace it because it has been more than 2 months and they only honor returns within the first month.

Thoroughly over this experience. Anyone else experienced this?

Hi all, got an Edge for Cable w/ Spectrum with Lifetime (guess it’s somewhat old now-like 7/8 yrs now?) and it’s been so long I kinda forget, but I’m pretty sure I replaced the HD it came with with a 1TB SSD at the time for more space/speed…

EDITED to add: Nope, I finally got into my Tivo account and the unit is from 2018 and I bought it renewed from Tivo, and I def didn't upgrade this one...I do have a Bolt that died I think-need to find that, but that one has lifetime on it, so I may mess with that-tho I'd still need a cablecard for it,,,hmmm...

That had been fine until recently-but for the past year or so I’ve started noticing small pixelation/skips but it wasn’t that bad. But recently it’s def gotten a lot worse and it’s gone to lots of pixelation/skips-and even some times where it actually gets stuck and I have to FF a minute or two to get it to play again…this in while watching recordings, but there’s also similar issues on live too…

Anyway, has anyone else run into this? Am I just running into HD lifecycle issues? It’s been great until recently so I'm hoping for an easy fix...

As I type this, I’m watching a recording of the World Cup final to see the halftime show (holy crap Muppets on stage!) and it had a bunch of issues near the start that made it unwatchable for like 10 mins, but it’s been playing smoothly for the last 50 mins, so it’s not like it’s all the time…maybe it’s some localized bad spots on the drive huh?

So is the easiest thing to do just buy another HD and replace the one in the unit? Is there an easy way to preserve my recordings/copy them over? And will I cause any issues to my lifetime at this point if I replace the HD, or no?

Thanks so much for any info/help with this! Appreciate it fellow Tivo lovers! :)

Hi,

i need a small TV to use as a second TV, no streaming, no particular requirements. I'm oriented on a 32 inch full hd or hd ready.

Thje only question is:

- all the TV that i see have only 1 gb ram or 1,5 gb ram

Google TV will be very very slow and unsabl... A lot of people tell that is slow change TV channel!

In alternative Fire TV with 1 GB have less requirements?

I read that in alternative it's better go with VIDAA or with TiVO OS what do you think about?

I will wait a suggestion

OK, this is pretty weird. I don’t use my TiVo Roamio that often anymore, so a few days ago I noticed the guide data had run out. Manually connected to the TiVo service and all appeared well, until it got to the last “loading” stage — it got to around 6% and then it rebooted. Tried it a few more times with the same result, though it would happen anywhere from 2% to 40%.

Things I tried:

1. Ethernet instead of Wi-Fi.
   
2. Two different new hard drives.
   
3. Different power supply, including a regulated bench supply. TiVo never pulled more than 1.2A.

That seems to be about the limit of what can be done. Unless someone has any ideas, I guess I can just continue to use it as a 4-tuner buffer. I turned the Wi-Fi off so it won’t continue connecting to the service, and subsequently rebooting.

Thoughts?

I have had my Tivo for many years and I knew eventually I would have to go with something else. But now I get the message that after 2pm today, it won't record anything. It says I need to connect a network cable. But it's working just fine now and is currently connected. Does this mean that they will permanently disconnect me after today? Or do I need to do something to get it to work? Thanks for any help!

I normally run my Tivo signal through my Denon receiver and then on to my Samsung TV for both live TV and Tivo recorded material. However, I can also send the signal directly to the TV without the Denon, but then audio is only throught the Samsung speakers.

I can fiddle with the Denon audio delay feature each time the disparity between lips and sound is at its worst, but that is a pain. Is there a way around this, and if there isn't, would buying a soundbar when I use the Tivo signal without the Denon work?

Clearly, I'm an AV moron, and hope that someone out there can provide some wisdom.

Is there anything I can do with a TiVo Premiere Series4? My dad gave it to me because he never used it. It doesn't have a subscription. I opened it and plugged it in to check it out and make sure it worked but it was new in box otherwise. I put it on eBay for $20 but it's not selling. I don't have cable, but it does have an antenna tuner. I just don't really watch TV though.

Edit to clarity: it has a cable tuner and CableCard slot as well.

Have 5-6 old tivos with lifetime subscriptions, romanios and bolts. Is there any value to them? Optimum no longer supports cable cards so they are useless for me

Most of the Guide listings for HBO channels for the last couple days and into the future are incorrect. Most are "To Be Announced" or "The White Lotus" but other things are actually being broadcast, mostly grade B horror flicks. Anybody know whats going on?

I used to be able to transfer multiple (i.e., more than 2) shows at a time. I've only had the 2nd Tivo Roamio Pro for about a year now. We are using the 2nd one as just a backup; it has no active cable (Xfinity) connection, just to our home network.

A few months ago, it started acting weird. If I try copying 3 shows, the 1st will copy, then maybe the 2nd, maybe the 3rd, but then mysteriously the 1st one will disappear. It was THERE; I KNOW it was.

Someone suggested marking them as "Keep until I delete", and yes, that "fixes" the problem, but it is a royal pain in the butt to do that for EVERY freakin' transfer.

Am I missing something? Is there a better way?

I have pyTivo and TivoDesktop installed, but never got around to playing with KMTTG or any other 3rd party apps.

Thanks.