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  • Bunch of questions

    1.
    I have three TIVOs (Original, Series 2 and Humax DRT-800) and am probably about to get another one, but can't seem to find what I really want.

    I want a TIVO HD with the ability to record onto DVD, like my Humax DRT-800.

    2.
    If not, then how do I record programs onto DVD? I'm not a techie, so I hope there's an easy way.

    3.
    I keep hearing about how the Series 2 can "talk to each other through the network." Can my Series 2 and my Humax do that? What network? I don't know what that means. Who do I call to make that happen?


    4.
    Is Series 3 HD? What does it do that the Series 2 doesn't do?

    5.
    Can Series 2 talk to Series 3?

    6.
    I know one of the Series, either 2 or 3 allows for expansion by hard drive. Does this mean just a regular, external hard drive, like a Western Digital 500GB hard drive that sells for about $100? How many hours of HD programming would fit on a 500GB hard drive?


    7.
    I heard Comcast bought TIVO and was going to be incorporating TIVO into their products. True? When? I don't want to buy this one only to find out next month that all my wishes have come true in one unit.

  • #2
    1 - Not available, sorry to say. You can get a TiVo HD and transfer files over your network to a computer, and then burn. But not easily in HD.

    2 - See #1, or use a DVD Recorder attached to the SD outputs.

    3 - We've got a whole bunch of TiVo Networking Parts that can help you get this going. Basically, if you have a home network, you connect your units up. If you don't have one, you need to make one.

    4 - Yes, it's HD, and it also can deal with the latest encoding technology so it can stream Netflix and YouTube, among other things. Both, of course, require a network.

    5 - Yes - they can transfer SD shows back and forth.

    6 - We have upgrades for every TiVo model - all internals, and some external. See our TiVo upgrade kits.

    7 - Nope. But Comcast did a deal with TiVo, and they are putting TiVo software on some of their DVRs.
    Last edited by WK-Michael; 04-15-2009, 02:26 PM.
    Been here a long time . . .

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    • #3
      Thanks.

      Do you know why the HD DVD burner isn't offered? Is it in my future?

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      • #4
        There really aren't Blu Ray DVD burners out there as home theater components at all, much less integrated with other units. Players, alone, are still pretty expensive.

        Beyond the technical issues, there seem to be plenty of restrictions on how the HD content could be used.

        We don't think one is coming anytime soon, if ever. Of course, we'd be happy to be wrong.
        Been here a long time . . .

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