Engadget buddy
Dave Zatz over at Zatz Not Funny is reporting that TiVo will be giving the ol' Series 2 box another refresh before
Series 3 models hit
stores, well,
when they
get around to it. The new box, model number TCD649180, features a 180-hour recording capacity, both USB and
Ethernet jacks for easy networking, and dual cable tuners -- although you can only record 2 regular cable or 1 regular
and 1 digital channel simultaneously. Amazon lists the 180-hour box as available for pre-order at $350, which will
probably cut into the sales of the 140-hour version that goes for $40 more. [Note: Although no photo of the new model
is available, we imagine that it will look just like other Series 2 boxes, pictured]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zed @ Mar 26th 2006 3:14PM
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dvasj.2@gmail.com @ Mar 26th 2006 4:36PM
So how does this work with the new prepay deal?
There is a dual tuner 80hour model too, would that just be the one we get free?
Mike @ Mar 26th 2006 4:56PM
I cannot even remember how long I've wanted a dual-tuner Tivo to replace my old Series 1! I just cannot believe it's taken them this many YEARS to introduce one. Unfortunately, as much as I love my Tivo and think it's simply the "best" solution out there, the other options such as MythTV and MCE are getting close enough that I might have to spend my money on one of those when I do upgrade. Especially now that they do not offer the lifetime subscription option either and I'm not a big fan of open-ended monthly bills...
charlie @ Mar 26th 2006 6:32PM
Meh. For what tivos cost after subscription fees, you could buy a couple HD tuner cards, a 300GB hard drive, and some sort of wireless AV setup to get the signal from your computer to your TV and stereo. And adding space would be cheaper.
the godfather @ Mar 26th 2006 7:03PM
@ #4
except that tivo will record hbo and the like while your hd tuner cards will only be able to record ota signals. not knocking mce, just one of the faults it has :(
Karl Viklund @ Mar 26th 2006 7:26PM
Hello people!
I got a question. Is it possible to extend the recording capacity by buynig a bigger hardrive or buy one extra or so? 180 is very good and I guess that's enough but sometomes you might want to save stuff for a long time and I see how at least I would run out of space pretty quick if I owned one of these. So it is possible to just plug in a bigger HDD or maybe pay Tivo to do so?
willink @ Mar 26th 2006 7:42PM
@#6: Check out www.weaknees.com. I've purchased a number of large pre-imaged drives from them. You just pop one (or two) in your tivo (with tools they provide) and you're good to go! They'll even do it for you for a small fee, with a quick turna around.
Mart @ Mar 26th 2006 8:07PM
Weaknees are great. I dropped my 40 hour series 2 off to them here in LA and picked it up the next day. The upgrade maxxed it out at 260 hours.
The problem with these older tivo's is that once you start filling them up the response to button presses in the menu mode is erratic and often extremely slow. I think the upgrade for this sort of thing is a replacement card but it's not the sort of thing weaknees does, and rather, it's a sort of a hack.
Eric @ Mar 26th 2006 9:26PM
When is the Series 3 coming out anyway? My Series 1 finally died, and I was hoping to go straight to Series 3.
HyperHacker @ Mar 26th 2006 9:40PM
Dual tuner... oooooooh...
Mart, it's probably lagging because it's re-reading the drive contents on every button press. Do those have directories? Try having less files per directory, might help a bit.
Energy_Guru @ Mar 27th 2006 7:54AM
So if you get this two tuner Tivo how do you make it work in practice with a cable STB? Don't the STB's only let you watch one channel at a time? So would you need two STB's from your cable company do record two shows simultaneously on the tivo?
BBOCK @ Mar 27th 2006 8:20AM
This is a bit misleading. With my cable company (Comcast in the Southern California area) you can't receive any channels without one of their settop boxes. So two channel recording without cablecard is pretty pointless unless you want to get two cable boxes. Do they have any way to send separate IR signals? In theory you could have two cable boxes and could shield the fronts so that only IR from the IR blaster could get to them. But if the IR blaster sends out the same signal to both boxes, it wouldn't work.