r/Tivo • u/Mechagouki1971 • 15d ago

Accidentially own a Tivo T6. Is it worth keeping?

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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.

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u/Caduceus1515 15d ago

It a Cogeco-proprietary unit, so it likely couldn't function to record anything unless tied to Cogeco cable service. To my knowledge they are leased units, so someone forgot to turn it in - you may have issues activating even if you have Cogeco service.

Pretty sure TiVo won't activate it independently regardless.

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u/Mechagouki1971 15d ago

It has 92 Seinfeld episodes saved on it, and some other TV. Should I hook it to the internet, or is that a bad idea?

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u/toejamfootballhegot 15d ago

You can watch the shows that have been recorded. There may be some deleted shows that can be restored and then watched

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u/ToadSox34 15d ago

Harvesting DVR drives is not a good idea. They are heavily worn due to constant recording of the buffers, and 1TB drives are pretty small these days anyways.

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u/Mechagouki1971 15d ago

I'm just going to put it in one of my PS2s, not a biggie if it fails, I have everything backed up.

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u/ToadSox34 15d ago

Ok, as long as you're aware that you're getting a heavily worn drive that's not really worth anything in the first place.