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The Series 3 HD has an external SATA connector, which should soon allow standard external hard drives to be added much more cheaply.]]>Sep 15th 2006 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/15/weeknees-selling-upgraded-tivo-series-3-units/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/15/weeknees-selling-upgraded-tivo-series-3-units/Sep 15th 2006 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/15/weeknees-selling-upgraded-tivo-series-3-units/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/15/weeknees-selling-upgraded-tivo-series-3-units/
I'm curious as to whether the Series 3 will even allow content to be easily streamed to devices like Apples iTV-- isn't the Tivo network software still missing in action for OS X?]]>Sep 15th 2006 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/15/weeknees-selling-upgraded-tivo-series-3-units/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/15/weeknees-selling-upgraded-tivo-series-3-units/
If the Series 3 is anything like the Series 2, then no, it's not worth it.

Imaging the drive is a trivial process if you're at all tech savvy. It takes about 10 minutes and just involves running a Linux boot CD on your PC with your old TiVo drive and your new drive connected to it. I wouldn't say it's something my grandma could do, but for anyone with any knowledge of computers at all, it's nothing. If you can connect a hard drive to your PC, then you can do it.

I don't know if the Series 3 really has a "proprietary" drive connector inside or not. The Series 2 just had a regular old IDE connector. If the Series 3 has a vanilla SATA connector, then you're good to go once you've imaged. Otherwise, it still doesn't seem worth it to pay $200 for a proprietary connector. Just get the connector from somewhere. It can't be more than $20 worth of electronics.

People were selling these "upgrade kits" for Series 2 machines also, for inflated prices. I just went out and bought a big hard drive and downloaded MFSTools. It was easy.
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As for networking, the Series 3 can do the following:
1) I can stream content from my PCs through the Series 3, but not FROM the series 3 to my PCs.
2) You can still get the games, Internet Yahoo goodies etc. through the Series 3.

The box is beautiful, the software rocks as always, and now the HD options make it a compelling box to own.

Once we can expand capacity and move content out of it through the network, it will be a solid 10.]]>Sep 20th 2006 2:33PM