TiVo Selling 'Extremely Well' In Canada

[zonereyrie]

The Vancouver Sun has an article today on TiVo sales in Canada, where it was just recently introduced at retail, which is very upbeat. It has already been selling well at Future Shop: Future Shop only got TiVo in all its stores on Tuesday, but accepted pre-orders from customers, who got a free wireless adapter with the order

Comments

[excaliburca]

So here is a question: for those of us who already have TiVos in Canada, can we now change our addresses and such so that is will reflect our real addresses rather than use the Wyoming zip that we needed to do orginally when we registered online?

[zonereyrie]

The TiVo service has actually been supported in Canada since 2005 and you've been able to use a Canadian postal code since then - so yes. :-)

[nickfruhling]

Actually, we haven't been able to use a Canadian address ever, as they bill us under the city "Leo" in Wyoming, without using our actual information. How this gets past the credit card companies I have no idea...

When you are setting up your TiVo's location on the box itself, you can indeed select a Canadian postal code, but for all billing and account purposes, we are being billed out of the States.

[zonereyrie]

Even after the official support started? Weird.

I'd hope that is no longer the case now.

[nickfruhling]

Even after the official support started, if you go to account overview on the TiVo site there is no options for Canadian provinces or postal codes.

However, maybe if you sign up from the tivo.com/canada specific site, your info is somewhere else? I don't know what the benefit of changing it for existing Canada-through-America customers would be.