Tivo Has Discontinued Its Dvr Boxes

TiVo has confirmed that it has stopped trading its DVR set-top boxes, marking nan extremity of an era that changed really we watch tv forever. As first reported earlier this period by Cord Cutters News, TiVo Corporation softly pulled its once-groundbreaking integer video recorder from its website. Holding institution Xperi later confirmed that nan listing was removed connected October 1.

“I tin corroborate that arsenic of October 1, 2025, TiVo stopped trading beingness DVR products, including hardware and accessories, some online and done agents,” a TiVo spokesperson confirmed to PCMag. “TiVo nary longer manufactures hardware, and our remaining inventory is now depleted, though we will proceed to connection support for nan products going forward.”

The TiVo container revolutionized tv upon its motorboat successful 1999, allowing viewers to pause, rewind and grounds unrecorded television. There was a clip erstwhile you would conscionable miss nan commencement of a show if you weren’t punctual, and you’d person to sync grabbing a snack pinch a commercialized during nan large game. You besides had to really watch nan commercials, thing that is unluckily making a comeback pinch an summation successful ad-supported streaming.

The DVR pioneer is now a package company. It has been producing TiVo OS almost exclusively successful nan European marketplace since 2022, though nan smart TV OS premiered successful nan US this twelvemonth via Sharp. “The Sharp Smart TV Powered by TiVo” launched arsenic a 55-inch QLED show pinch 4K solution and HDR support. TiVo OS functions for illustration galore different tv operating systems, aggregating streaming services and offering its ain room of free and paid content.

TiVo will still connection customer support for its now-discontinued boxes, which bodes good for customers who person purchased a life plan.