http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/ Engadget HD Comments for TiVo confirms Series3 testing, hitting retail "soon" http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/Jul 18th 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/
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My Series One TiVo is still recording analog TV until 2009, right?]]>Jul 19th 2006 12:12AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/Jul 19th 2006 12:23AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/The Series 3 will also be able to record ATSC dual or one and one cable.

Your Series one will work as long as your cable company output analog or you have a STB with a S-Video output. So probably long after 2009.

How good could it be, if it isn't HD? ]]>Jul 19th 2006 6:52AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/
I think that that the series 3 will be a success, and it might even help tivo grow a bit, but this is almost two years too late. They've missed out on two years of subscription fees from people like me, two years of product mindshare growth, and two years of mavens/evangelists like me telling everybody they need to buy Tivo. I don't think Tivo is dead or dying (quite yet) but they are getting very very close, and they need to release the Series 3 very soon - within a month or two.

And for those of you saying they needed to wait for the cablecard 2.0 spec to firm up, that's bunk. I would have bought a cablecard 1.0 version in a heartbeat, even knowing I'd probably have to replace it in a few years to get more functionality - all I care about is being able to tape shows with the Tivo format. I don't care about anything else that cablecard 2.0 gets me, and I'm willing to bet that a vast majority of Tivo's potential HD customers don't either.]]>Jul 19th 2006 9:25AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/
My media center PC is serviceable, but it's just not as mature as a Tivo. I've spent countless hours trying to get all of my PC hardware to play nicely together with limited success. It really makes you appreciate a device like the Series 3 where it just works out of the box.

$750 for the Series 3 and I'll be all over it. Anything more and I'll probably wait for Vista. ]]>Jul 19th 2006 10:03AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/Jul 19th 2006 10:53AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/
Works great and I use ATSC OTA exclusively. Guide downloads through the PBS NTSC embedded stream. No monthly fees. I paid $499 for this from Best Buy. Unfortunately, Sony has discontinued this.

BTW, this Sony box also has cable card slot - however I am not using it.]]>Jul 19th 2006 6:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/18/tivo-confirms-series3-testing-hitting-retail-soon/
I have personally seen it in action and the Cable Card intergration and setup is very easy.


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