I don't know much about Series 3 but I love my Series 2 DirecTV TiVo's but there was a dawg of a system upgrade that came down the pike a few months ago. DTV controls the upgrades on these units and they are slow about it since they stopped selling DTiVO's in favor of their own machine which is worse than a bad TiVO upgrade.. Dealing directly with TiVO is supposed to be much better.
Two sites to visit- <http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/> to see what the users really think. There is lots of good information on how to do an upgrade yourself in the underground section. It is linux based but there are all sorts of tools to make it simple. Instant cake being the foremost of the easy to use do it yourself tools. <http://www.weaknees.com/> for hard drives to upgrade your unit to a reasonable hold time. There are other sources but these people have wonderful kits for you to void your warranty yourself. I've done both the kit from Weaknees and prepared my own harddrive and installed it. Weaknees has excellent instructions on the website for the installation of the disc drive in a variety of machines. On Dec 5, 2007 1:47 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So buy an ATSC converter intended for televisions and go on using your > >DVR which will likely quite happily accept the signal from the converter > >and record it, then play it back in glorious NTSC. If you wait, you can > >even get coupons likely to be worth $40-$50 to apply to the purchase of > >two different converters. > > Tivo now has HD units and recently introduced a lower-cost model at $299. > My reading suggests that it has all the necessary features, but only > enough storage for 20 hours. However, the new model has an eSATA port > that lets you add a 2nd drive. With big drives selling for low prices > this is very appealing. > > But I have read so many bad stories about Tivo. The one I'm most > concerned about is that Tivo deletes stored shows after a few weeks and > there is no setting to prevent this. I like to hold on to some shows for > a long time. I often collect an entire mini-series to watch at one > sitting and it may take me a couple of months to find the time to do > that. If Tivo deletes shows as it pleases that won't work for me at all. > > Does anybody on the list use a Tivo? > > Or should I build my own MythTV box? > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
