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Second, what's with the casing. Totally cheap! Just like the TiVo HD, not even an upgrade in the LEDs???? I hope there is some difference in the display, cuz otherwise TiVo just finally decided to slap a larger hard drive in the TiVo HD to call it a new product. Maybe tweaked it to get THX certification, but I assume a check will do that also. No thank you, I'll keep my Series3 which actually looks the premium price it cost, and attach any eSATA drive I come across to work with it.

Finally, I think TiVo totally missed a humongous opportunity to give themselves a head start by not tying this into the Olympics somehow. With all the coverage NBC was putting out, how could TiVo not get this product out in time to capitalize on its biggest selling point: the ability to record more than 32 hrs of HD programming! I'm stunned, major missed opportunity. Could have ran special commercials along with NBC in the run-up to the Olympics, and had this in stores around the 4th of July. Somebody fire the marketing department!

I gotta give it to the DirecTiVo announcment from yesterday, it sounds a whole hell more compelling than where TiVo is going solo at the moment. Maybe my tune will change once we know if this thing is SDV and tru2way compatable, but I'm not liking the looks of the press release.]]>Sep 4th 2008 2:16AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/Sep 4th 2008 9:10AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/
I suppose if you have a lifetime Tivo subscription that this might be a good choice as an upgrade but wow $600 is a lot of $$$ to watch some tv.]]>Sep 4th 2008 9:09AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/
The only problem with storing movies like this is that any drive can fail at any time. I had a friend lose a Seagate 750gb drive full of programming, and Seagate could not repair it, thus my preference for owning a hard copy on and and blu-ray.]]>Sep 4th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/Sep 4th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/Sep 4th 2008 11:12AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/Sep 5th 2008 7:10AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/04/tivo-hd-xl-dvr-150-hours-of-hd-recording-599-99-available-no/Sep 5th 2008 9:15AM