We’ve been selling DirecTV Single Wire Multiswitches (SWMs) for some time.
Due to fluctuations in pricing, we’ve always sold these with coupons, on the theory that we could adjust the coupon as our cost changed. But that seemed to be a royal pain. So, now that we have good access to the switches, and pretty consistent pricing, we’ve just lowered the price and made it simple. $279 gets you a SWM!
An interview with Jim Denney of TiVo has a quote by Denney stating that Amazon Unbox will be available in HD “in the not too distant future.” That would be nice! So far, I’ve been using my AppleTV for better quality than my TiVo for online downloads. Frankly, while there are many advantages to the AppleTV, I’d rather use my TiVo just because I prefer the TiVo remote. So HD would bring me back over for downloads.
But I’m still pleading to all three companies (Apple, TiVo, and Amazon – even though it’s really not the fault of any of you three): please, PLEASE lengthen the 24 hour viewing window for rented video. It’s just not long enough, and it’s keep me and many others from renting more movies.
I have to confess that I didn’t remember seeing this one ever – and I’ve been working with TiVos for many, many years now. I was digging through some old boxes and I turned up these remotes with AOLTV buttons:
So I did some searches and found this link to an old story about a partnership that never blossomed.
I’m still not sure how you would change the volume with that remote on the right, but it seems ideal for Simon Says.
Sound like a bit of a blast from the past? Yup, that’s right. The Humax T2500.
This is definitely a bit of an older unit, but it’s a pretty good one, and it’s pretty cheap. We’re selling them at $99 as our “deal of the day” today, and likely for a few days.
Just to be clear, this is a standard definition, analog unit (it has no digital tuner – for more on that see our blog post about the digital transition), with no internal DirecTV tuner. Further, many people associate Humax with the DVD burner units – we have those, too, but this isn’t one of them. This unit is basically a TCD540040 clone, branded by Humax, with a much larger capacity.
So that said, why would you want one of these? Lots of reasons:
We’ve just added three more models to our TiVo power supply page. Amazingly, we now sell fourteen (14!) different models of power supplies for TiVos alone. Yes, we’re packed in to the gills over here.
The ones we just added are for:
