Tivo Alive and well in England?

[datelly]

I live in Chicago most of the time but am a British Expat.
I have Tivo in Chicago and of course love it.

In England I have a Humax Freeview recorder. I was under the impression that Tivo was "dead" in England.

The concept of using Season Pass is foreign to Humax.

I have so many questions, not sure where to start ...

- The Tivo's I see listed to buy on tivoland - are they new or used? Do they have a warranty?
- Do you need a telephone line to get the EPG or can you use the Internet or off air?
- Does anyone know if the remote control for a Tivo box will work with a SlingPlayer?

Guess I'll wait for answers to these and go from there.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Cheers

Robert

[healeydave]

Hi Robert,

Apologies for the delay in replying.

tivoland.com is the only supplier of units in the UK at the moment.

Our units vary from ex-demonstrators, ex-store stock, corporate boxes etc.

Often the physical Tivo themselves are little or un-used but the boxes are a bit tatty from being shipped around etc.

I re-build each Tivo to order, I replace the hard disk with a brand new higher capacity drive and test the system before shipment.

By default you use the phone line to get the epg via a Free call in the early hours, but if you order a networked system and have an internet connection, the system will automatically contact the Tivo servers through the internet instead of through dial-up.

Don't know about the remote vs sling box question I'm afraid.

Regs
Dave.[url][/url]