Around the turn of the millennium, my now wife and I plunked down our hard-earned money and purchased a Philips TiVo series 1 with lifetime service. We had a friend with a ReplayTV, but the TiVo interface won us over, and we enjoyed the TiVo life through roughly a decade thanks to a dual 128GB hard drive upgrade and silicon dust cache card. The updated hard drives eventually died, and we reverted back to the original 30GB drive for a few months before our directv receiver was replaced with one that had DVR capability. The directv DVR UI sucked, but it was easier than stringing IR blasters and serial control converters together to keep the TiVo going, so the TiVo ended up being neglected.
I had cozy visions of my TiVo recording kids shows from a DTV converter box as part of my basement retro media station. TiVo dropped support for series 1 guide listings in 2016. This obviously had no practical impact on me, but it still makes me a little sad.
So long, TiVo. You were a great box.