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My Indoor HD Antenna for OTA is Great!

We have a TiVo Premiere in the garage that we largely just use when exercising. In our house, which is old, our garage is detached. So I didn’t want to run cable and/or DIRECTV wires out there, and I didn’t really want to mount another external antenna on the garage (I have a Winegard SS-2000 on the house). But we did want programming out there.

So I decided to try an indoor antenna to see what I would get. I had been reading good things about the Mohu Leaf, and I bought one on Amazon.

The Leaf is a thin rectangular antenna that looks basically like a laminated piece of paper. One side is black and one is white. The point of that is that you can tack it up on your wall, you can get the color to be as close as possible to the surroundings.

In any event, I put the Leaf up about two months ago. Since then, I’ve been in great shape! My programs record perfectly. I’m glad I didn’t bother trying to mount something on the roof. Highly recommended!

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Extra THR22 Remotes are Now in Stock for New DIRECTV TiVo

The remote that shipped with the new DIRECTV TiVo was certainly a surprise. While it looks and feels like a standard TiVo Peanut Remote, it’s different. It has totally different IR codes (and it has RF!).

Now, up until this point, all TiVo Peanut Remotes basically had overlapping capabilities. They all could share the standard buttons like TiVo, pause, the numbers, channel up/down, etc. And then some had more specific buttons, like the DVD playing buttons the DVD TiVo remotes have, or the ABCD buttons on the TiVo Premiere remotes, or the keyboard on the Slide Remote. But the main buttons just worked with any other TiVo that also came with a Peanut-shaped remote.

The compatibility for any Peanut remote with any other Peanut remote ended with the THR22. The THR22 is just not compatible with any other TiVo remote. So we had to find and source this remote separately, and they’re now in stock – you can order one from our TiVo THR22 accessories page.

But there’s a silver lining here, at least for some. While it’s not compatible with other TiVo DVRs, it is compatible with DIRECTV HD DVRs. So if you’ve got, say, an HR22 and you’ve always fondly remembered the TiVo remote, well, you can use this! IR code wise, it’s basically the same as the white remotes supplied by DIRECTV.

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Pre-Paid TiVo Lifetime Service Boxes

If you’re looking for a DVR that doesn’t require a monthly fee, we have something that might work for you.

We have several TiVo DVRs here that already have lifetime service paid on them. These are true TiVo DVRs that don’t require a monthly fee. Just to be clear, lifetime service isn’t transferable from one unit to another. So to take advantage of the lifetime service attached to these units, you’ll have to actually use this specific hardware.

All of these units have been refurbished, tested, and warranted by us. All ship with cables and remotes. And, in weaKnees fashion, we can upgrade the recording capacity in these units.

TiVo Product Lifetime Service (PLS) alone costs $399.99 to $499.99 from TiVo. Our units, with this service already on them, start at $199.99!

We currently have several different models in stock – Series 1, Series 2, Series 3 (HD) and even some units with DVD burners in them. But we don’t have a lot of any of these, so if you’re looking, don’t hold off too long.

For cord-cutters, these units make a great way to receive and record OTA channels, and pay no monthly fees at all. Just note that for OTA, the Series 1 units won’t work at all, and the Series 2 units will require a digital converter box (separate hardware, but still no monthly fee). The Series3 HD units have built-in digital tuners to receive and record OTA signals, and, in fact, they can record two at once.

Please see our page of TiVo DVRs with Pre-paid Lifetime Service.

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WeaKnees Now Upgrading the LG BD690 to 2 TB

We’re always looking for another video storage unit to upgrade, and it looks like we’ve found one: the LG BD690 Blu-ray Vudu box. If you’ve got one, it’s got a 250 GB drive in it. We can upgrade it to 1 or 2 TB.

Here’s a screenshot of a 2 TB unit:

Please see our page for LG BD690 upgrades.

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DIRECTV TiVos are Fully In Stock

We’ve gotten through our first backlog, and then our second backlog, and now we’ve finally got plenty of units on hand and in stock.

So if you’re looking for a DIRECTV THR22 HD TiVo, we’re shipping them out every weekday. And we’ve got them in the stock size (500GB) and up to four times that (2TB).