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"Tivo has been offering its customers who have lifetime service the option to transfer that service to the new HD TiVos for $199. But this offer had been restricted to customers who had lifetime service on their standalone Tivo DVRs only - not those who had it on their DirecTV TiVos.

If you were one of the early DirecTV-Tivo users and you purchased lifetime service for your DirecTV unit, that lifetime service is now transferable to a Series3 HD Tivo for cable for the $199 VIP fee. To do this, you still need to purchase the Series3 unit by 12/31/06. So if you were on the fence about switching to cable, this should help - and the new Series3 Tivo is truly amazing!

Final important note: The Series3 Tivo will NOT work with DirecTV, so this deal only makes sense if you're planning to switch to cable."

In order to qualify, you had to have paid $199 to DirecTV/Tivo for the lifetime account service...
First you must call the VIP Transfer # which is: 866-424-8486. You must have your new and old service numbers available for this call.
Next you must call the customer service # 877-367-8486 to get credit for any pre-paid service plans, and they will pro-rate for the service you have not used.

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