Monday, March 31, 2008


We Will Miss You, TiVo

I got the "Green Screen of Death" on our TiVo on Saturday. After about 30 minutes, it would restart itself and then go back to the green screen telling me my TiVo has "encountered a serious error" and it "attempting to fix the problem". This went on for a few hours, so I decided to put the TiVo out of its misery. We've been having playback problems (video stutters, pixelation, and even failure to play recordings) for a few weeks now, so I'm not surprised this happened. I shipped the box back today, and we'll get a new dual tuner TiVo in a week or two. The exchange is technically an upgrade, so I have to pay them $150, but the lifetime subscription service will transfer over for free.

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