http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/ Engadget Comments for TiVo announces Series 3 HD TiVo, due this year http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


300 hours huh, that can't be at HD signal quality can it. Maybe they picked a better codec.]]>Jan 5th 2006 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 5th 2006 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


I think clearly Apple is the wrong platform for connectivity between computer and living room.

They are going to have a tough sell when Vista comes around the corner. It's looking great and has some amazing features as well as the Media Connector stuff.]]>Jan 5th 2006 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/'>http://www.tivolovers.com/252572.html



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I'll try to get more data tomorrow, I've been updating my original post in TiVoLovers.com and answering questions in the comments there.]]>Jan 5th 2006 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 6th 2006 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Its dual tuner, only lacks locals in HD (at least in my area), and can record from any of the DTV HD channels.



Am I misunderstanding you?]]>Jan 6th 2006 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Will definitely buy one if it hits at a price of $800 USD.]]>Jan 6th 2006 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 6th 2006 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 6th 2006 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 6th 2006 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Hmmmmmm.



I think you have to watch a helluva lot of TV to justify this thing. The Tivo does more than other DVRs, but not $800 more.]]>Jan 6th 2006 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


I'm a patient guy. Until it comes out, at which point, I will be at the nearest retailer so fast the laws of physics will have to bend to let me by.]]>Jan 6th 2006 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Sure, rental is still cheaper than owning in the short term. But have it long enough, and it equals out.



Do we know if this one supports external hard drives via usb/firewire? Moxi has been saying they will, but no word on when. I'm assuming it'll support tivo2go as well.



Finally, Moxi doesn't support dual tuners. Watch one, record one. Or record two and watch nothing. (or maybe that is dual, not sure :) ). I'm hoping the tivo will record two and let me watch one. Wed night are crammed with Alias, invasion and CSI: NY at the same time.]]>Jan 6th 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


It will supposedly recover from removal of the drive, but you'd lose any shows that were fully or partially on it, so it's not a "take some shows to your friend's house" sort of a drive. Just additional space.]]>Jan 6th 2006 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Not that being a satellite user (Dish Network) I could use the dual tuner features (would need two satellite recievers) or of coruse the CableCARD but it would be nice to buy a Series3 because it would be more future proof, like maybe if Dish miraculously became CableCARD compible in a few years) or I switched to a different provider (less likely)



One of the things I REALLY love about my Stand Alone Series2 is that it's provider independent, and that it works with satellite, analog or digital cable, whatever I've got.]]>Jan 6th 2006 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


I could see springing $600 or more for one if I could simply put any external USB2 drive on it and having the Tivo handle it as additional storage through a few additions to the Tivo software (even just the ability to "archive" a show from the internal drive to the external one would have been a killer app).]]>Jan 6th 2006 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Moronic trolls, tech pundits, and stock shorties have been saying "TiVo is dying" every day for the past six years. Ten years from now, TiVo will be raking in billions from DVR advertising revenues and its stock will be through the roof and there will still be folks saying "TiVo is dying".



TiVo is a bit like Apple, in that way.]]>Jan 6th 2006 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


you make valid points about apple and the living room, but you need to remember that they took the cautious approach on the ipod too. They waited until creative and a few others bungled it all up and then apple created the monster known as the ipod. The media center had a long head start and only with vista is it now a good product. No telling what they have planned but, if history shows us anything they may suprise us on monday.



2legit,

Carson]]>Jan 6th 2006 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


I to would prefer using any old usb drive to move data, but I'm guessing it'll support tivo2go anyway.



As for dish people sitting on a tack...um...you've had tivo since the damn thing started.]]>Jan 6th 2006 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/
I'm only disappointed that there's no Firewire port on it as well as an internal slot for an Airport style wifi card. Using HME, the Firewire port could have been used to grab shows recorded on a cable set-top box, just in case somebody wanted to rent one of those and/or worked better than the CableCard setup. The wifi option also goes without saying.



But with that said, great machine. What's the price, and what's the lifetime subscription price on this machine? And will it still be easy to pop out the existing hard drive and replace it with something bigger?]]>Jan 6th 2006 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 6th 2006 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Anything over $350 and you can forget it.



There's barely a dozen available HD channels right now (not including the pricey, subscription channels, like HBO) that I can get from ComCast here in the SF Bay Area, so I'm not in a hurry. If it's over that, I'll just stick with my Series2 and watch DVD's. If it get's priced over $500, I can cannibalise parts from existing systems a create myself an open-source MythTV solution.



BUT, it's a huge step in the right direction.]]>Jan 6th 2006 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 6th 2006 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 6th 2006 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/


Sorry Apple fan boy. Maybe next time.



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1) DirecTV's contract with TiVo runs out in Feb 2007 and there are no signs of it being renewed.



2) Since DirecTV is owned by NewsCorp and NewsCorp already developed a proprietary DVR for their Australian Market, known as the NDS system, DirecTV has been selling these units rather than DirecTiVos to new customers.



3) DirecTV announced that they will be switching all local and new HD broadcasts to the DivX / MPEG4 encoding standard. They are phasing out MPEG2.



4) There are no plans currently to make a DirecTiVo HD/MPEG4 that could decode the newer signals. NDS MPEG4 units are in active development.



5) DirecTV's answer is that they will allow you to trade in your old (read: TiVo) units with newer (crapier) units that will support the newer broadcast standard (read NDS -- remember the proprietary box I mentioned above). [In other words, downgrade to the inferior NDS technology.]



6) Even current DirecTiVo software does no support Home Media (except with hacking -- but that's why I like TiVo and hate NDS: I can hack it!)



7) Satellite is subject to weather and other environmental conditions -- your results may vary.



8) Now Verizon is offering FiOS cable television -- eat your heart out Cox!



9) Cox has a Cable Card. (1.0a IIRC)



10) I told Verizon that if they want my business, they'd best get on the bus too! I said that, with DirecTV's position on MPEG4 and NDS, all that stood in the way of them getting my business was a) DirecTV's failure to renew TiVo's Contract and upgrade the TiVo S/W / H/W [items 1-5], b) TiVo SA support of the CableCARD standard [above] and c) they release a CableCARD for the Verizon FiOS TV.



So it looks like the ball is indeed in Verizon's court...]]>Jan 7th 2006 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 8th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 8th 2006 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 8th 2006 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jan 10th 2006 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Mar 19th 2006 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Apr 4th 2006 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Apr 7th 2006 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Apr 7th 2006 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Apr 8th 2006 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Apr 8th 2006 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/From the contest site:
"Grand Prize: 1 Special Limited Edition TiVo Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder w/Product Lifetime Service"

Obviously they are making it into a collectors item and over-valueing the package and adding something that is no longer available (Lifetime service). I seriously doubt they would price it higher than the cost of a Sony XBR HD TV. That would destroy them. If they want to compete, they are going to have to take some loss on the hardware and hook people on the monthly subscription..]]>Jun 27th 2006 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jul 16th 2006 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/Jul 19th 2006 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/05/tivo-announces-series-3-hd-tivo-due-this-year/
TiVo absolutely hit the nail on the head with their user interface. Nothing else compares.

I use a TiVo for standard-def recordings, but for HD I use the set top box / DVR that was supplied by my cable company (which I pay $12/month for). It absolutely SUCKS. The uesr interface is clumsy. Setting recording options is an excercise in futility. Its equivalent of TiVo's Season Pass is a joke.

My Series1 TiVo is still going strong after 7 years of everyday use. You can bet that I'm willing to pay a high price when the HD Series3 comes out.

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