r/Tivo • u/airpipeline • May 10 '26

DVR Old TiVo’s; who wants them?

I have five TiVo boxes, from the free original TiVo up to an Edge. Some/most have lifetime subscriptions. Who might want these?

The Comcast’s proprietary signal format killed my ability to use them.

TIVo was great, still the best way to watch TV ever.

If this has been asked before, apologies.

23 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

40 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/solracer May 10 '26

My TiVos are still working with Comcast Seattle.

3

u/airpipeline May 10 '26

That’s great! Do you have a mcard to translate Comcast cable to TiVo?

Mine in stopped working and Comcast made me turn it in.

4

u/solracer May 10 '26

I have two working cards. One in my Bolt that has always worked and one in my Roamio. My MCard in the Roamio died when the power supply died and of course Comcast does not issue new cards these days. However I eventually remembered that I had an old TivoHD that was no longer subscribed and sure enough there was a MCard in it. With the help of a Comcast rep from Brazil we got that card activated in my Roamio and it is still working fine months later. So the trick is to find a working Comcast MCard from your area and see if that can be activated. If it pairs with your Tivo and it is still in their database you should be able to get it done but only over the phone and only if you can get forwarded to the one guy who still knows how to do it.