http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/ Engadget Comments for TiVo Series 3 Lite pics and specs revealed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
It's got two cablecard slots, on the front under a little door that drops down. They're side-by-side instead of on top of eachother. Cox installers accidentally left a copy of the installer instructions for this new unit when they were putting cablecards into my current Series 3 unit.]]>Jul 17th 2007 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
In real world terms, what does the lack of THX cert mean? Anyone? Anyone?

I am THRILLED to see this device. Bye bye Scientific Atlanta EvilVo. You'll never cut off the ending of my shows again.]]>Jul 17th 2007 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
THX certification is just a standard. Supposedly a product has standards that they are suppose to meeting according to THX. They submit their product, pay and fee and essentially get the product THX certified.

I personally think THX is a joke these days, just a way for THX to get money and manufactures to milk more money out of us. THX used to be reserved only for super high-end gear, a status symbol. It has since been "dumbed down" to meet a larger market of average mid-end products. Sure, it is nice to have a standard, but many manufactures don't even bother with it due to the fee and their products would easily meet the standard.

The long and short of it is, you will never miss it.]]>Jul 17th 2007 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
I balked before. I'll seriously consider this one (especially if they offer a lifetime transfer, though I'm not holding my breath).

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Are you for real?]]>Jul 17th 2007 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/07/17/more-tivo-series3-lite-leaks/

I'd take those tech specs with a grain of salt, but the general details seem accurate based on the various pages in Google's cache and the photos.]]>Jul 17th 2007 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
Because like the latest samsung boxes use 5th generation.

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Thanks Tivo!]]>Jul 17th 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
The S3 was always marketed as a premium product and expensive. A lot of people, myself included, said early on NOT to buy it if you would have ANY regrets. Because the price *would* come down. How about just last month when the very same S3 you own was selling for ~$400 after rebate for Father's Day? Or the fact that it has been selling for ~$600 fairly constantly for months, and right now $500 for a refurb.

Don't be an early adopter if you aren't willing to live with the costs, it is simple.
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PS, I would still happily buy one of these even if they did go broke in 2 yrs.

Cable/Sat DVRs are the suck.]]>Jul 17th 2007 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
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The same specs were posted on the Tivo Community Forum. You can also find the new model on Buy.com. I have a Series 3 and one HDTV. I have no use for an addtional box. *Yet* Once I move I'll buy another set and the $299 price point is perfect!]]>Jul 17th 2007 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 17th 2007 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 18th 2007 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
Sure all these new features make this hot, but I'm thinking that this comes at the expense of this device to be compliant on all cable providers video networks.]]>Jul 18th 2007 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 18th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
160gigs is only like 15 hrs of HD programming or less counting the OS space.


The problem is that they shorted me on my Series 3 with only 250 gigs, and now they can't put that in the lite, because then S3 owners would be seriously upset. I know I would. I like to think I paid 3x the price for SOME reason.

Paying what we did for the S3, they need to offer the lite at 250gigs (30hrs) and offer S3 owners a free upgrade to 750 gigs or so. When we trade our drives, they could use them as refurb drives on the lites later on.]]>Jul 18th 2007 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 18th 2007 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
I know there is a directv hd box, but tivo doesnt upgrade it anymore, nor does it have all the cool network features like the regular one does. Make one for satellite]]>Jul 18th 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/Jul 18th 2007 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
That'd be the _ONE_ thing holding me back from getting a S3 lite.]]>Jul 18th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/17/tivo-series-3-lite-pics-and-specs-revealed/
And thise new box of theirs will still require you to rent 2 cable cards from your provider.

If TIVO wants my business, either charge a reasonable price upfront (no monthly subscription fee) or rent me the box monthly for the same as my cable company does.

Last time I checked, TIVO lifetimes were a joke. Many people got duped. The lifetime was attached to a specific hardware serial number. If it broke, you upgraded, etc, you lost your subscription. That's a joke. I remember a zdnet review once were the reviewer called it 'a slap in the face'. By the end of that day, that comment was removed from the review. I wonder who TIVO called to get that comment removed.

Let's face it. TIVO is a company that either needs to wake up or just hurry up and DIE.
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I finally posted the stuff I captured on July 4th: http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/07/18/july-4th-series-3-lite-leak-images/]]>Jul 18th 2007 6:34PM