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TiVo Unveils Series3 HDTV DVR

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Complete with by w.p.richardson · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Product placements and popup ads!

    Tivo is soooo out of bidnezz. No way can they compete with Comcast, TWC, etc.

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  2. Re:It's about time! by caudley · · 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...

  3. Sounds great, but... by Mr.+Cancelled · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    1. You still have a subscription fee (not a concern for some / major concern for others)
    2. You still have Tivo the company in the mix, which in the past has:
      • Erased user-recorded content
      • Recorded programs that Tivo wanted you to see, without asking your permission (which in addition to being very annoying, also used your precious disk space)
      • Limited the duration you have for watching recorded content
      • Not guaranteed any of Tivos features - They can remove them as they see fit (conversely, they can also add features, but who's going to complain about that?)
      • Made very questionable deals about subscriber privacy (selling demographical information, regional data, etc)
    3. And this Tivo box, as with all other Tivo models, is still limited in what it can do, NOT in terms of hardware and potential, but in what Tivo will let you do with the hardware you're purchasing.

    Sorry... Neat specs, and if there were no subscriber fee, I might pick up one for the GF who has issues dealing with my home built PVR (simply because she's afraid she'll break it somehow).

    Additionally, while Tivo has turned a blind eye to some of the Tivo hacking that's taken place, they've proven that they're more than ready to disable features of their boxes if consumers begin using them in ways they didn't imagine.

    Once Tivo, as a company, begins acknowledging, in legal terms, my rights as owner of the equipment, I'll consider them. Until then, as long as they're catering to Hollywood's hyper-paranoid demands, they're SOL as far as I'm concerned.