WeaKnees' modded TiVos eligible for lifetime service transfer

If you're a big enough TV fan to need 100 recorded hours of HDTV (or 925 hours of ever lovin' standard def) then you probably already know about WeaKnees, the website that sells modded TiVos at a premium. The site already has the TiVo Series3 available for pre-order at prices ranging from $800 to $1600, and the company says the new Series3 are expected in stock by September 22. But the better news -- and the reason we're writing this article -- is that these modded TiVos are being officially deigned eligible for the $200 lifetime service transfer that TiVo is offering to existing customers who buy the new Series3. We still don't know why TiVo doesn't just sell these beefed-up boxes itself instead of letting someone else do it -- but no matter, more power to the independent retailer!

[Via PVRWire]

[Patrick @ Sep 19th 2006 7:59AM]

Problem right now:

aside from being very overpriced

One customer has reported his drive being VERY loud

when he emailed weaknees they said they'd have a quieter one in a few weeks.

[mikebridge @ Sep 19th 2006 8:27AM]

uhm, how is this news? you still need another qualifying unit with a tivo lifetime subscription on it to transfer the subscription from...

[JD @ Sep 19th 2006 9:02AM]

mike - if you go to their site, they'll tell you how they can assist you with getting lifetime too. An expensive proposition of buying a new humax dvd tivo from them, buying lifetime for the humax, and then paying another 200 bucks to transfer that to their spiffy hopped up series 3.

[r @ Sep 19th 2006 9:00AM]

because according to the tivo website, only tivo's bought through tivo.com (and not a 3rd party like best buy) are eligible for the lifetime subscription transfer.

[@ Sep 19th 2006 11:27AM]

I have yet to get into the whole tivo world yet I find it neat to how many sites are actually out there to help people like me.

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