If they won't sell you lifetime service directly, find somebody who already has a TiVo, and they may be able to buy it for a new box when then goes in your name. (I've never understood TiVo's policies on this.)
Tivo is hilarious with this stuff. Back in around 2005 I was moving and couldn't have Tivo service at my new place. I was going to call Tivo and cancel my service so that I could give my friend my old Tivo and he could sign up for it himself.
Well, I called them up and was forwarded to a retention guy. He came back with the offer of $6 a month for Tivo service. At this point I'd finally figured out how to log into my Tivo account and noticed I could simply change every bit of information, from my billing address and credit card info to my login name (email address), and decided to say "oh, okay, you got me. I'll take the $6/month service." So I did, and my friend ended up with a super cheap Tivo service.
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