More Info About the Series 2 DT TiVos

The new DT TiVos now feature a black remote and a black lid, and the front bezel surround is a steel gray. The gray matches the standard gray of many new stereo components. The evolution of the colors of these has an interesting parallel to the progression of color changes to Apple laptops. Both companies insisted on dark grays for years, while customers ached for either light gray or jet black. Apple finally went light gray. TiVo went mostly jet black, with a highlight of light gray. It looks great.

The DT units ship with 7.2.5 software, which must have been developed along with 7.2.1 for single-tuner units. The most obvious feature that this unit doesn’t have that 7.2.2 for single-tuner units has is the “undelete” feature. For us, the most obvious is that it won’t accept drop-in “add” drives, just as 7.2.1 didn’t. We expect an update to come soon to add “undelete”; we hope that update will also add back the ability to add drop-in kits.