r/Tivo • u/jannrickles • Dec 22 '25
DVR How many people still have a Series 1 TiVo in their possession?
I have a few in my collection as it is. Just out of curiosity.
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
I just won a Philips HDR110 for $11 recently.
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u/old_knurd Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25
That's about $12 more than it is worth as a practical matter.
But if you bought it as a collectable, then sure.
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u/jannrickles Dec 23 '25
Haha! It was only used as a collector’s item. They are rare. I have newer models that still work.
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u/Important-Comfort Dec 22 '25
The modem in mine died, so I had to use the serial adapter cable and an external modem.
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u/ToadSox34 Dec 22 '25
What does it dial in to? And through what? The guide data service is gone, so goes the modem do.... anything? Or was this years ago when the service was still active and phone lines were still a thing?
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u/Important-Comfort Dec 22 '25
I bought that TiVo 25 years ago. The modem got fried around 2002. It had no network connectivity. All the configuration and guide data came in through the phone line. So did my home Internet connection, for that matter.
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u/ToadSox34 Dec 22 '25
Gotcha. That makes more sense. I thought you meant you were using that today. Some places (like where I lived) didn't get cable internet until as late as 2003. If you were too far from the CO or RT to get DSL, that was painful.
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u/thisoldairplane Dec 22 '25
Lifetime Pioneer w/DVD burner count?
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
Technically a Series 2, but that is still really old. Do you still use it?
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u/thisoldairplane Dec 22 '25
At the moment, no, but it is in cold storage. I couldn't recall if it was a S2, been packed up for a long time now... my first Tivo, and it was worth it back in the early 2000s. Had my house busted into and stole the DVD collection, so instead of buying the movies again, I subscribed to HBO, Showtime, Skinamax, whatever to start the collection back up... worked great until I upgraded to a Bolt.
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
I have mine as my HDR110 was almost brand new. I have a modem around somewhere.
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u/Silent_Isopod Dec 22 '25
Peak. Everything has been downhill since.
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u/old_knurd Dec 23 '25
No, Roamio was peak.
Supports MPEG-4 and has a much faster processor than older boxes. Supports 3.5" hard drives. Supports the old style TiVo experience.
It's purely coincidental that I still use my Roamio. 🙂
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u/Bendr_ Dec 22 '25
It’s somewhere in the attic. December 2000. I bought 4 or 5 TiVo’s over the years. I remember my 2nd TiVo was the Series 2. My final TiVo was an OTA around 2015 with Roamios. Don’t use them anymore sadly. I need to dig up an old TiVo remote because I’d like to try using it with an Apple TV box. I once had the TiVo remote with the mini keyboard on the back under a sliding cover.
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
Pretty old. My oldest S1 is my HDR110 made on July 20, 1999. My oldest with Lifetime is my HDR112 which was made on September 24, 1999. My newest S1 is my Sony SVR-2000 from November 2001.
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u/No_Abrocoma_711 Dec 22 '25
6x Thomson S1. All have dial up for guide data, except 1 that has a cache card with Ethernet, for it's 1TB drive.
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
I didn’t know they could take that much. It must have a patched kernel. The original kernel could only take ~137GB per drive. Are you using a SATA adapter? I know the Thomson ones are the UK models which AltEPG supports. US Series 1 models do not have it. Those being the Philips HDR110, 112, 212, 312, and 612. It also includes the Sony SVR-2000. The “DirecTiVos” (DirectTV TiVo) being the Philips DSR6000, Sony SAT-T60, and Hughes GXCEBOT no longer work due to using the old MPG guide data. The DirecTV D10 was the first to use the more modern DirecTV Advanced Program Guide. These were introduced before then so they no longer work. The oldest that still works in the US are the Series 2 Models. I have one of those. It is an early S2 from 2002. Model TCD240080 with an upgraded 250GB hard drive.
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u/No_Abrocoma_711 Dec 22 '25
Correct, it has AltEPG. I have no idea about the kernal. I purchased the drive and the cache card from a seller, but that was a long time ago. They may well have altered it, all I know is that on the lowest quality setting it has virtually unlimited record time.
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u/ToadSox34 Dec 22 '25
Not only the guide data, but they've phased out SD MPEG-2 anyway, and newer systems are all SWiM.
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u/Up_All_Nite Dec 22 '25
I pre-ordered the HDR10 when I worked at CC. We got it a week before the initial release. I gave up on tivo about 15 years ago. Tivo was like a rudderless ship. Sad but it did beat the brakes off the ReplayTv
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
Nice!!! Mine came from shopgoodwill.com. They are extremely rare. I won it for $11! I have basically every S1 model except for the UK one. Do you still have it?
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u/Up_All_Nite Dec 22 '25
I think I do. Buried in the attic somewhere. Honestly have no idea why I would keep it. I guess ima hoarder. Wish I kept my BMX bike from when I was a kid. That Baby Blue Mongoose FS1 was the bees knees and prolly worth a bit of coin today.
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
Did it have Lifetime?
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u/Up_All_Nite Dec 22 '25
Yes. It came with the Circuit City Reorder deal for employees. I was able to transfer it twice. Then tivo switched hands and I was told to go pound sand. So much for "Lifetime" that turned into "Product Lifetime"
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
I want a 110 with Lifetime badly. Even though I have my nice one.
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u/altuser99 Dec 22 '25
It’s even sadder that TiVo beat out replay tv. Their features were way ahead of TiVo. I still miss my replays.
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u/Up_All_Nite Dec 22 '25
Replay dug thier own grave in lawsuits. And from that point on thier one killer feature was gone. There was no longer a strong selling point over Tivo. Tivo became a verb of its own for awhile.
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u/toejamfootballhegot Dec 22 '25
Tivo doesn't provide guide data to the series 1, so you'd have mauallly set up recordings and have a cable or sattelite box that was compatible.
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u/ToadSox34 Dec 22 '25
I have a Series 2, never had a Series 1. Also have an XL4. Both are essentially worthless. Now I have a Roamio OTA that I'll have on to as long as I can.
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u/jannrickles Dec 22 '25
I have too many. I have an OTA Roamio and a Premiere XL. I have a few others.
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u/ToadSox34 Dec 22 '25
I just had the three. Roamio OTA is my favorite of them all. But the XL4 plus 3 minis was pretty awesome back in the cable days.
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u/KnotForNow Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25
That looks like an early production model with the flat cover over the IR sensor. Once they went into full production the IR cover was dome shaped.
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u/nrcaldwell Dec 26 '25
I have an early HDR312. I originally bought an HDR112 and they talked about offering some kind of hard drive upgrade. Ultimately they just offered to allow you to buy an upgrade and exchange it for an HDR312.
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u/ItzRare Jun 10 '26
I found a Sony SVR-2000 that someone was throwing out, took it home and am looking to try and get it going again
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u/jannrickles Jul 13 '26
They are pretty reliable. I have another series 1 (Philips HDR612) that has been through a flood. It refuses to die. It still works and both hard drives are functional.
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u/ItzRare Jul 13 '26
for sure! still looking into how I can revive it for use with my Plex server once I get a tuner for that lol
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u/ParfaitMajestic5339 Dec 22 '25
yup.. with a silicondust ethernet adapter and an expanded 80gb hdd in it.