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I would agree that lifetime is better. I have two 45xx, one is just over
two years old and the second is nearly 1 year. I upgraded the elder unit
to a 250GB drive last summer. They have very high resale value and
except a terrible hardware failure scenario could easily recoup my
costs.
newsREMOVE@THISmegazone.org (MegaZone) wrote in news:megazone.1081792503
@sidehack.sat.gweep.net:
> someone shaped the electrons to say:
>>I like my Replay and don't intened to sell it, so the value from your
>>method is 0. The value from it's usefulness to me is much greater.
>
> Eventually you'll probably want to sell it to upgrade to something
> better - HDTV, a bazillion hours, etc. Technology marches on. And
> the residual value of the unit will be higher.
>
> And if you *do* keep it for more than two years - well, then you'll
> have spent less money on it anyway since you'd keep paying monthly
> forever (and the price will probably go up again someday), while
> lifetime is one time.
>
> Lifetime is really the better value for both those who plan to keep
> and use the unit a long time, and those more likely to resell it to
> upgrade to something else.
>
> I've always done lifetime on the TiVos I've owned, and it has paid off
> - I've sold one already (to upgrade) and more than earned the fee
> back. And I'll probably be selling another one of my older units soon
> (I have another new one). I paid $200 for the first unit's lifetime,
> but by the time I sold it lifetime was up to $250 - so that was the
> resale value. On the newer one I paid $250 - but now it is worth
$300.
>
> -MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762