Circuit City site adds TiVo Series 3, cites October release

So the worst-kept secret in the consumer electronics industry right now is that TiVo is on the verge of releasing the CableCARD-sportin', HD-recordin' Series 3 box -- but no one seems to know exactly when you'll be able to buy one. We heard from Todd the Best Buy employee that the new machines will be in stock on the 17th of this month, and now our friend Dave over at ZatzNotFunny has spotted the highly-anticipated DMR (remember, they're not DVRs anymore, and TiVo won't sell you one if you use that terminology) on Circuit City's website showing an October availability. Now does that mean October 1st? The 15th? The 31st? Well if we knew, we'd tell ya, but at least now we seem to have an actual release window: the Series 3 will (probably) be available sometime between September 17th and October 31st. As usual, we'll keep you posted as more information comes to light, but if that's not good enough, you're always welcome to switch over to satellite and pick up on of DirecTV's new HR20-700 HD DVRs -- thanks to HDBeat, we know that Best Buy will ship you one of those post haste.

Read- Series 3 [Via ZatzNotFunny]
Read- HR20-700 [Via HDBeat]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2006 8:23PM]

Wait, why aren't they DVRs anymore? What does DMR stand for? Digital Media Recorder?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2006 11:31PM]

Thank GOD. After ditching Tivo over a year ago to get Comcast's HDTV DVR I am soooo ready to welcome them back into my loving arms.

I'm pretty sure Comcast made their DVR suck balls on purpose, just so that people would assume all DVRs suck balls as well, thereby killing the technology before it can destroy all their ad revenue.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 12th 2006 12:11AM]

@iambic - Nah, Comcast/Motorola didn't purposefully make their DVRs "suck". Believe it or not, they thought they were making something pretty cool. Their greatest incompetence is that they don't realize that they are incompetent.

I complained about my DVR, things that are fundamental design flaws in the software, (I know, 30 years of computing and 20 years in the Silicon Valley at major developers) and instead of passing it on to the development team, they wanted to send out a technician to verify that the box was okay. UUGHH!

I also had the great displeasure of working with these folks as a vendor at one part of my life. They were far more interested in swinging their ***** around to show how almighty powerful they were than they were interested in making a better product for their customers. Especially the TCI/AT&T folks. Hopefully Brian Roberts (Comcast CEO) weeded out most of those folks when he acquired AT&T Broadband (nee TCI).