hdbeat.com — According to a tipster Todd who works for Best Buy, the TiVo Series 3 might be out of beta soon and is now showing up in their system. According to the computer It is scheduled to be in stock on September 17th with a Best Buy SKU of 7974418 (UPC of 400079744186 and Model TCD648250B). The price is listed at $799, but the street date field is blank.
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marosnaxAug 28, 2006
The only thing that is needed is VOD support for cable I bet they will be able to support the new cable cards, well I hope they can.
ocellnuriAug 28, 2006
I worked at large electronics store for a while. I seem to remember a few items hitting the inventory system early before they were on shelves. They often had a dummy price tag with them. I think it was the original Canon Digital Rebel that hit the system with a price tag of $10k. That was obviously not the price it came out with at launch. I hope that is be what's going on here.
Closed AccountAug 29, 2006
Oh and hey, I almost forgot... Since they are such a miserable failure of a company, they decided to SUE DISH NETWORK... Just like whiney Netflix sued Blockbuster for having a QUE.... It's so silly in today's day and age how people think they can OWN something like "One click shopping" (Amazon), or a queue (Netflix), and now TIVO sueing DISH NETWORK.
bluezhiftAug 29, 2006
Ouch! Has TiVo been taking pricing lessons from Sony or something? Unless they're totally insane with a death wish, I really doubt the Series 3 will come out at $799. They'll probably have rebates and bundles to bring down the cost of the DVR. Of course you'll probably have a long term contract and perhaps have to surrender your first born, that is if you haven't done so already to Sony to get a PS3! I like TiVo and have a Series 2, but there's no way I'd pay $799 for the new box.
doodlebummAug 29, 2006
Two words - bittorrent & isohunt
boilerbotsAug 29, 2006
I have got some recent MythTV experience. First I had to patch the linux v4l driver to support my ATSC tuner card. Then I had to F around with all the dependencies and getting MythTV installed and running. I had to manually edit MySql to fix the HD tuner multiplex table. That wasted another night.Finally I am seeing HD content but my CPU is maxed out and barely keeps up.I discover that I need XvMC library with Myth to really take advantage of my NVidia card. Rebuild everything again. Still sucks playing back HD content. It looks like the drivers and such under Linux just aren't optimized enough for HD MPEG-2 playback or maybe it is Myth's design. Seems that the backend wastes CPU cycles demuxing the transport stream to write a file while the frontend is having troubles playing back and decoding AC3.So I have over 2 weeks of time invested in MythTV, trying to make it work.Next I download the trial version of BeyondTV from Snapstream. I install, configure and am watching HD tv in less than 30 minutes. And here is the kicker, watching 1080i or 720p content and my CPU is only hitting peaks of 40%. I can pickup BeyondTV from Fry's for $20 after rebate right now and there are no more monthly fees for the program guide.Sorry Tivo Directv, sorry Tivo, sorry MythTV but I just want to watch TV, transport my videos to other devices and not spend a fortune doing it.Price of Windows XP not included but how doesn't have a few XP licenses laying around that where shoved down your throat when you bought a computer.
solarixAug 29, 2006
I have the SA8300 from a local cable provider. And I have to say, this unit misses the boat on so many marks. I had DirecTivo, then moved to Cable and got a 40hr Series2 (which is only 40hrs at crap quality, would have been nice if i knew that since my DirecTivo had no "quality" settings, it just recorded as it was broadcast) After really missing dual tuners, and being gifted with a 32"LCD HDTV, I went to the Scientific Atlanta unit provided by my local cable company.Now I gave this unit a fair chance, but the laundry list of problems are insane. Can only schedule to record shows that air in one week in advance; Kicks you out of a recording program when it completes recording; No 30 second skip; No Skip to 15 minute intervals; No way to transfer shows off the unit digitally.And to top it all off I found out why my "basic" cable channels look like crap while the HD and "Digital Cable Only" channels look OK. My channels 2-90 are in ANALOG!! I was gonna wait for the Series3 unit to come out, but I just cannot validate a week and a half of pay for TV that I honestly don't watch enough. And I cannot switch providers of cable because the company is a public utility and I believe has a terrif up so no competitor will even try to enter the coverage area.And all of this has been within 9 months. I swear, I miss Satellite.
tirofibanAug 29, 2006
1) Anyone know approximately how many hours in HD it will record (ie using decent compression)?2) Anyone know how soon, what kind, and how many upgrades Weaknees will offer? I would like to get it fully loaded :-)3) Love to try Myth TV but the wife would never go for it. 4) Isn't the Series 3 cheaper than the Dragon at the Myth TV store? What am I missing when everyone is saying how expensive Series 3 is? If you don't want to build your own MythTV, isn't the Dragon a good choice?Thanks,Marc
toobuellerAug 30, 2006
Tivo has moved away from a hardware sales+subscription model to a subscription based profit model. Most of their recent "Deals" on base cost of the hardware has been pretty cheap, assuming you agree to subscribe for a year or more.The same will happen with the HD Tivo, $799 bah... more like $199 with a 2+ year commitment to a subscription.I own 3 lifetime subbed Tivos that have each paid for themselves because of their lifetime subscriptions. I will not be buying or upgrading until they change their policy on lifetime subscriptions and allow me to buy/transfer a lifetime sub on the new models.