tivo series 3 and tivo to go = awesome
when i switched from my original tivo to the scientific atlanta charter dvr a few years ago, i was pretty dissapointed. the system was slow, the interface looked like crap, and it would re-record shows that it still had on it’s hard drive. things got a bit better when i went to the hd moxi box by charter, but it was still too slow, only held a few shows when recording in hd, and the interface was no tivo.
the last 2 months being back with real tivo has been great. i’ve been using it solely with ota hd, but it has dual cable card support, which will soon support two way communication with the cable companies, to allow on-demand and greater bandwidth because it won’t have to always send all of the channels, only the channels you’re watching. when the tv season ends this fall, i’ll probably get the cable cards and service since there won’t be anything worth watching on network television.
the best thing about tivo that i just bothered setting up is tivo-to-go. from any pc on your network, you can access your tivo and download the shows to your computer. and the very best part? i set it up to auto convert to h.264 to play on my iphone. i doubt i’ll start watching that many shows on my phone, but it’s nice to have that option, and an easy way to do it when i want to.
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Couple questions…
How much is that bad boy?
And, can it be used with cable or just satellite?
I’ve never owned a tivo before… But i saw that Western Digital just came out with a 500gb hard drive designed specifically to work with Tivo….
since kent hasn’t answered yet- its $300 and is designed to be used with cable or over the air. it can be used with satellite, but itd suck since itd have to use IR blasters. also, any e-sata drive will work with the series 3. actually most dvrs are supporting e-sata now, which is pretty awesome.
thanks ben. btw, cable cards from charter (are only $1.50 a month), so instead of paying the $15 for renting the box, it’s only $3 for two cable cards. although there is the $13/mo service fee for tivo, so it ends up costing the same…
and yeh, there’s a sata port in the back of the tivo, so you can use any sata drive.
hey, and if you do end up getting a tivo, use my email: kento@ishi… as a referral :)
thanks guys…!