TiVo HD launches

Ah, right on time the TiVo HD launches, and with all the expected features and highlights. Users can expect:

• HDMI / component out up to 1080i
  
• Dual frontal CableCARD slots (plus M-Card compatibility! slots are behind the gray plastic bar), single ATSC tuner, analog NTSC, etc. (Same deal as Series3 though, only two tuners can record at the same time.)
  
• No frontal display, Glo remote, or THX cert, still no support for multi-room viewing, TiVoToGo, and TiVoToComeBack
• $300 price tag

Get the deeper treatment in our Q&A with TiVo's Jim Denney.

TiVo HD launches

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 1:35AM]

Sweet. Now where in the heck is that Multiple Room Viewing?

[megazone Posted Jul 24th 2007 3:18AM]

Coming later this year.

[megazone Posted Jul 24th 2007 3:15AM]

It is a nice box - as with the Series3, I had the TiVo HD to review. There is some very interesting stuff on the inside of the box: http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/07/24/tivo-hd-aka-series3-lite-announced-and-reviewed/

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 6:58AM]

Um, why does the article say that there is only a single ATSC tuner when the TiVo HD has 2 ATSC tuners?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 8:13AM]

Great. In the UK when?

Ah, never you say :-(. Damn, back to series 1 (which can't be bought officially any more in the UK anyway).

Sadly HD PVR in the UK means Mr Murdoch's piece of crap.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 9:16AM]

How will it handle switched digital video? Isn't that the big question?

[Dubya Posted Jul 24th 2007 10:11AM]

This might be a dumb question but why would I buy this if I could score the Comcast Tivo box for merely a rental price?

[kcmurphy88 Posted Jul 24th 2007 10:52AM]

"Why this and not the Comcast TiVo?"

Better hardware. OTA tuners. The need to pay TiVo money each month?

OK, maybe not the last one. TiVo's insistence on the fee-based business model will keep them a tiny player forever. But then, TiVo's engineering has had about 70 IQ points on TiVo management for a long time now.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 11:42AM]

Sure, I would love to buy a superior piece of hardware in the Tivo, but I'm not even gonna spend $300 with their ridiculous monthly fee charges. I didn't even realize they wanted $16.95 a month to give me guide information. Shouldn't this cost about $3.95 to be competitive with cable? I think i get the Scientific Atlantic HD box for $4.95 a month and no hardware charge.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:26PM]

Folks, will the HD have MRV in a future update, or will MRV only be for Series 2 and 3?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:29PM]

MegaZone, yep, saw your posting - just looking for additional information since it wasn't mentioned on Tivo site or Q&A article with Tivo VP...guess i'll check out AVS as well.

[telemike Posted Jul 24th 2007 2:59PM]

I cannot and will never spend more than $4.95/month for Tivo service. The subscription fees are too much in addition to a regular cable subscirption. TWC makes renting the SA8300Hd so cheap that Tivo just isn't worth the cost of hardware and monthly fees.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 4:09PM]

Everyone talks about how cheap and great the DVR service from the cable company is but I don't see it here in Phoenix. We have Cox and we pay $18/month for our DVR and $5/month for "Cox Digital Video Recorder Service". AND, the SA8300HD is a big piece of junk. The eSata port is nice for adding storage but mine constantly loses the connection and I have to hard-reset the cable box to get it to recognize the external drive. I am drooling over the Tivo HD box and will be purchasing one in the near future. Please give us the multi room viewing tivo!