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Retailers Leak New TiVo HD Specs and Price
Brent writes "Retailers goofed and posted most of the specs of the forthcoming TiVo Series 3 Lite, which Ars says may be called 'TiVo HD' at launch. A comparison with the standard Series 3 shows that for a savings of $300, you only lose the OLED screen (do you need a screen on your TiVo?), the glowing remote (which you can pickup for $50 anyway), THX certification (worthless) and 90GB of storage. Looks like it may be a TiVo hacker's dream."
I would we willing to pay an extra $300 for a Series 3 that could record HD from my satellite service (Dish Network). Having been a Tivo user for nearly 10 years, I finally had to dump my Tivo and start using the Dish Network ViP622 HD-DVR. It's not bad, but the user interface is no where near as tight as a Tivo. maybe someday Comcast will grace me with cable in my area...
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I've been waiting for the T3 to drop in price to something my better half won't cringe at. That $700 price point was murder. Also, I am so freakin sick of the cruddy Motorola DVR that Verizon rents me that I am just peeing my pants with this pseudo press release. It will actually cost less for me to have a Tivo than that crappy DVR. (not factoring in purchase price, of course, so it will cost more, i just won't let myself believe it)
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That said, if I'm going to get a new Tivo, I have to deal with a lot of new issues:
So in addition to the upgrade to HDTV, I will have to shell out probably another $30-$50 a month, which I really don't see as being necessary, and for what? HDTV? Forget it.
On the other hand, this newsseems promising, if Comcast doesn't f$ck it all to hell.
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When they first came out, you could buy lifetime service instead of paying monthly. I have a Series 1 Tivo with Lifetime Service. For awhile they had a deal where you could transfer the license to Series 3, too.
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1. Also, CableCards seem to be really picky about how many splitters there are in the cable. My TWC really wanted the TiVo to be the only thing connected to the wall, but could tell from my setup that that simply was not feasible. I did determine that one splitter was blocking some frequencies and had to ditch it.
2. eSATA port is unconfirmed. (BTW, I hate that people selling cables try to sell "internal eSATA cables". I almost bought the wrong kind because they haven't learned that the "e" stands for "external".)
3. Even if you can't read the OLED display from across the room, you can still tell from a glance (on a unit not in Standby mode) whether what's recording on a tuner is a scheduled recording of yours or not (Suggestions are not named on the OLED; scheduled recordings are).
4. I wish earlier models included an Emmy symbol the year TiVo was awarded one.
I'm waiting for my $300 rebate, but I won't use it to buy another one. Eight TiVos are enough for me right now. (Heh, my first two 14hr Series1 TiVos also had $300 in rebates, making them cost -$0.01 after rebate, not considering taxes on pre-rebate price.)
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I got my Series3 about a month ago with the Father's day promo ($599 @ Abe's of Maine.com minus $200 rebate). We have Comcast cable in our area and while I am loathe to give them more money, I can say my wife and I have been ecstatic about the clarity of the picture on the HD channels. Planet Earth on Discovery HD is simply gorgeous and I can't wait for Heroes/Lost to start the new seasons. We previously had a series2 DirecTV Tivo with dual tuner but no HD and when we moved we decided not to renew our contract and save up for the series3. We were not disappointed.
The OLED screen cannot be read from the couch, but is crystal clear when I walk past the unit and I still find it a useful feature... not $200 useful, but between that, the 31 hours of HD capability, the sexy sleek box, and eSATA option, I would still go for this over the Lite version. That may change as more details are released about the S3Lite.