I love technology and gadgets. I also love saving money wherever I can. Unfortunately, these two passions rarely meet in the middle. That was, until the TiVo Premiere was released at the end of March 2010.
I had been a customer of DirecTV for almost 10 years, but the rising costs, pitiful DVR hardware, lack of room-to-room sharing and inability to download TV shows or movies on my schedule was getting old. We held on to the last DirecTV/TiVo box released by the company (HR10-250) as long as we could, but it was showing signs of failure. By the middle of May, I had read a number of reviews on the new TiVo hardware (the Premiere and Premiere XL) and heard way too many “no official release date or hardware specifications” announcements from DirecTV on their upcoming release of a new DirecTV/TiVo box. The time had come to take the plunge, so I put on my research hat and looked closely at my options as a TV fanatic.
Our HR10-250 Was Struggling to Hang On
After some serious research, I posted my findings in the article Cancel Your Cable/Satellite and Save Money While Adding Functionality. In short, it seemed that completely canceling DirecTV and going with two Tivo Premiere units, along with OTA (over the air) HD antennas, would provide us with what we needed. The upfront cost would be significant, but the savings would begin in just over a year and $56.42 a month would start going back into my bank account.
