First the good news: the TiVo service for series1 users is free for the next 3 months.
The bad news: as of 1st Jun 2011 TiVo is discontinuing the EPG service.
This follows on from the withdrawal of the InView EPG service for Digifusion, Sony, Thomson and Inverto Freeview boxes, in June last year.
TiVo are encouraging users to switch the TiVo-powered Virgin Media service; a service which is only available to 50% of the UK.
See the official announcement:
http://support.tivo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/318/kw/uk
Joshua Danovitz, GM & VP of TiVo has put a post up on the TiVo blog about this:
http://blog.tivo.com/2011/02/1123/
Solutions
I don’t know much about the TiVo service or the boxes, but it sounds like there are some possibilities if you hack your box.
Steve Jenkins produced a guide to adding a network card to the TiVo and setting up TiVoWeb:
http://tivo.stevejenkins.com/network_cd.html
The wikipedia page for TiVoWeb is worth a read also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoweb
