Anyone use a TiVo for in house distribution?

[TylerJ]

Here is my dilemma, our music department wants to review themselves in-between services, I want them to be able to do this without making any extra work for the production folks, so I was thinking I could use a TiVo set it to record the entire Sunday morning and let them play back using iPads and the TiVo app during, in-between and later in the week. My question, could a TiVo be used to record a direct signal form our video switch? I unfortunately have never owned one.
Thanks for any ideas.

[TylerJ]

Well this snipit from another post may have answered my question, anyone with another idea?

The main problem is that Tivo charges a monthly fee for the guide service, and even if you don't need that guide since you are not recording tv shows, you have to pay it just to keep the Tivo activated. If you don't pay, it will simply stop giving you access to any functionality. You can pay for lifetime service for $400-500, but that only applies to the lifetime of that particular unit. Since you would be looking at discontinued units, it wouldn't be worth it to buy that for a unit that could fail soon. You could find a used unit that already has lifetime on it, but those will also cost more.