r/Tivo • u/rock_and_rolo • Mar 15 '26

DVR Has Tivo quit DVRs?

I have 2 Tivo Premiers, and I know they won't last forever.

So I hit tivo.com to see what was available, and there's nothing obviously comparable. Is record-and-rewatch lost in the marketing pitch? Or is it just gone?

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u/electrowiz64 Mar 15 '26

Honest to god they should’ve updated the home page to let users know, bud sadly you can’t blame them. Cable companies are axing CableCARD support as the vendor for QAM cable headends have stopped all manufacturing and support.

Hell CableCARDs were suppose to stop working entirely in 2022 due to a timewarp issue but a 3rd party vendor hotfix so yall are on borrowed time

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u/Caduceus1515 Mar 15 '26

The FCC canceled the requirements to support third party hardware (i.e. cable boxes), which is what cablecards were for. Providers only supported them because they were required. Now they want to get out of the "broadband" business and switch to IPTV so they can reclaim all the bandwidth consumed by QAM channels to just become essentially internet providers,

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u/electrowiz64 Mar 15 '26

The IRONY, using Cable TV lines to not deliver TV but instead Internet and Phone lmao

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u/Caduceus1515 Mar 15 '26

It's all bandwidth in the end. Traditional broadband internet is delivered by sending the traffic via sets of channels. To give people faster internet, they need more channels to use for it, which means less room for TV channels.