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[quote DCrunch]jimbrady, is it much trouble swapping out HDs in a Tivo?
It was a breeze w/my series2 box--very minor surgery.
There's a formatting issue that I avoided by buying the expansion drive/kit from Weaknees.com--they probably charge twice as much per GB vs. buying the cheapest IDE drive you can get, but I didn't feel like screwing around w/formatting the drive on a PC and hoping it would work once I'd disassembled and re-assembled the TiVo box.
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Enjoy my TiVo Series 3, Series 2, and Series 1. For right now, I can only get data to the Mac from Series 2. The new Toast 8 (with TiVo software) does this very elegantly and makes archiving it to DVD very easy if I need to.
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As of 3/1/2007it is illegal to make a VCR/DVD recorder/DVR, etc that has a NTSC tuner w/o a ATSC (HD) tuner.
So everything changed on 3/1/2007 and not much was ready on the market. The DVD recoders with HDs disappeared for some reason. I think Philips now has a unit.
The other solution is to get rid of the tuner - then you don't have to worry about ATSC/HD.
If you have cable or satellite your provider should have a DVR available.
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I have the Sony RDR-HX715 DVD Recorder & Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Combo but looking quickly on Google, it appears they're not in stcok anywhere. I also just bought a Series 3 TiVo and while the interface isn't up to ReplayTV standards (TiVo owners, forgive me - I have both and that's my subjective opinion) it does a fair job of recording although I've had more than a couple programs that didn't record for the allotted time - very frustrating when you get to the middle of a show and the recording stopped. Of course the TiVo doesn't give you any built-in DVD archiving capability and the "copy to VCR" feature is hobbled by DRM cr@p. Hopefully something will come out - prolly about when my job goes to China in June and I won't be able to afford it.
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This whole lawyer and greed-filled mess has really fouled up the advancement of technology as regards TV, and is going to fuel the downfall of the networks. The original TiVo and ReplayTV were/are absolutely great technologies, but since they debuted before HDTV, do not incorporate HDTV resolution. The current crop of garbage foisted on us by the cable companies (and now by TiVo) is all cripple-ware. It's really a shame that ReplayTV and TiVo did not debut after the start of HDTV. Oh well, for non-HDTV material, ReplayTV just can't be beat...I'll be hanging onto mine for a good long time.
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[quote davester]It's really a shame that ReplayTV and TiVo did not debut after the start of HDTV.
It wouldn't have.
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[quote jimbrady][quote DCrunch]jimbrady, is it much trouble swapping out HDs in a Tivo?
It was a breeze w/my series2 box--very minor surgery.
There's a formatting issue that I avoided by buying the expansion drive/kit from Weaknees.com--they probably charge twice as much per GB vs. buying the cheapest IDE drive you can get, but I didn't feel like screwing around w/formatting the drive on a PC and hoping it would work once I'd disassembled and re-assembled the TiVo box.
Jimbrady, thanks.
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I agree with Jim Brady... I have used the services of Weaknees.com as well buying pre-formatted drives -- very easy to replace harddrive into a TiVo unit. Might pay a few extra bucks buying something preformatted, but I prefer that over collecting all the software you need to do it yourself online. Swapped out drives in both my Series 1 and Series 2 was very easy. Kept the original drives as backups in a drawer should the upgraded drive fail sometime off in the future.
