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Saturday, April 19th, 2025 8:06 PM

TIVO This channel is not authorized (V58) - all channels

I have been getting this message on my basement TIVO on all channels  since Monday.  My other TIVO is working fine.  

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2 months ago

Hello @user_l4k655 sorry to hear that you are having issues with your Tivo. I know how frustrating that can be when you are ready to watch tv and receive an error message. I would be more than happy to look further into your issue. Please send us a direct chat message with your full name and complete service address to “Xfinity Support”. To do so, click on the chat icon located at the top right of this forums page.

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6 days ago

I have a similar problem on 2 of my 3 Xfinity devices:  V58 Not Authorized on all channels.  Two of my devices are TiVo boxes; the third is an old set-top box (JD DCH70/2081) that is surely obsolete. Until now, I only used the TiVo boxes, although I see from my bill that I pay $12/month for the set-top box.  I say "until now" because the problem occurred after an extended power outage about 4 days ago. When the power was restored, one of the TiVo boxes worked (and still works) as usual for all the channels on my plan.  The other TiVo box shows V58 on all channels.  Perhaps its M-card was fried, and, yes, I know that Comcast doesn't support M-cards. So, I decided to see whether the Comcast box (which is listed on customer.xfinity.com/#/devices) would work when connected to cable. The answer is, "a little".  I can get some channels, but most (including common channels like CNN) are Not Authorized. I think the DCH70 is too old to have any idea about my plan, and in any case it is non-HD, etc.  Yet I'm paying the same monthly fee as I would for a 4K X1 Box with cloud DVR.  Can anyone recommend how I should proceed?  The Xfinity Assistant is useless.

   Thanks for reading. 

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Hello @cbdr, Thanks so much for taking a moment out of your day to leave a post on our community forum and we would be happy to help. If you could send our team a direct message with your full name, the name listed on the account (if different), and the service address associated with your account, I'd be more than happy to look into this for you. To send a Direct Message, please click on the chat icon in the top-right corner of the screen, next to the bell icon, and then type or select "Xfinity Support" to initiate a direct message.

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