There’s a new Tivo in Town. Do people care anymore? ArsTechnica TiVo HD does lose some of the finer points of the regular Series 3, namely the OLED display, the fancier Glo remote, and THX certification. There’s also a 90GB drop in HD size which shaves more than 10 hours of HD recording time off of the device. However, external storage […]
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The Tivo HD reviews are starting to pop up. I hijacked the links from over at Engadget. I’m really looking forward to the ARS review, since they tend to look at things pretty intensively. PC World Review CNET Review PC Magazine Review
Read moreEngadget managed to get a brief Q&A session with one of Tivo’s people and brought back some decent information, such as why it’s not THX certified, as well as a fairly long list of features that will be disabled at launch. Engadget Unlike the Series3, the HD will have out of the box M-Card (multi-stream CableCARD) compatibility.
Read moreThe Tivo Series 3 Lite is being given the once-over at Ars Technica. I can definitely appreciate the price cut! ARS The S3L will sport nearly everything that the regular Series 3 has, and it even some improvements. First, the basic "what can it do" stuff: it will support recording two shows at once from a mix of inputs (HD, […]
Read moreInteresting to say the least. But with so many people already owning DVR/PVR’s in their homes, are consumers really asking for something like this that will increase the cost of the unit? TV Squad Pause TV would most likely use flash memory, although it could also be hard drive based. A TV tuner and flash memory would be integrated into […]
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Not the sexiest box in the world, but this isn’t the final version. And plus, I think you’d take it when compared to the more expensive S3. But my question is, if this thing retails at less than $300, who would buy the S3 anymore for $600+?? Gizmodo A tipster sent us these spy pics of what he says is […]
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Dave Zatz has some info on the upcoming boxes coming from Moxi, with a pretty nice interface & cool features, including Cable Card & Multi-Room DVR. No mention on price or ETA though. Zatz Not Funny Both units feature an integrated DVD/CD drive. Regular readers know I shy away from additional boxes, so this appeals to me (though maybe Blu-ray […]
Read moreLong time coming, but it’s good to see nothing got in the way. Hopefully this will open up SOME sort of competition…or at least encourage cable techs to actually know anything they’re doing with Cable Cards. ZDNet So how will consumers be affected? The truth is there is very little benefit to this switch for consumers, some industry experts say. […]
Read moreThis really makes perfect sense, but I’m not sure how it will differentiate itself from the current STB offerings that do integrate TiVo. And wouldn’t this be competing with their own partners? Maybe this is the joy of everyone having to use CableCard now. Who knows, this is all rumors. TiVo Lovers Now Engadget is reporting that Netflix has been […]
Read moreSome interesting stuff I'm curious to see how it pans out. What are you guys gonna do, buy or continue to rent? I'm sure plenty of old DirecTV users are content with renting cable boxes. I remember several friends that just had old DirecTV dishes & boxes chillin in their garage, so curious to see. Maybe this will help more […]
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