TiVo Unveils Series3 HDTV DVR

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 6, 2006 @02:16AM from the more-acronyms-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at dept.

MegaZone writes "TiVo unveiled their new Series3 unit at CES yesterday. The Series3 is a digital cable ready box, capable of recording two programs simultaneously. It supports cable and antenna input, and it can handle digital or analog cable, digital ATSC, or analog NTSC broadcasts. CableCARD is used for digital cable, and it can utilize a single multi-stream card, or two single-stream cards. The system also sports 2 USB ports, 10/100baseT Ethernet, and an E-SATA port for external storage expansion. Video output is HDMI, component, S-Video, and composite, and audio is optical digital or RCA stereo."

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Re:It's about time! by caudley · 2006-01-06 04:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

No, no, no. They said *early* 2006 last year, see the press release on their site.
No these guys pitched themselves a nice easy 12 month deadline, with a working prototype and an already shipping HD unit (DirecTV), AND MISSED IT ANYWAY!!!
See my post below, these guys are dead, they just haven't figured it out yet...