Logitech is offering a $50 rebate on the Harmony 880 until April 25, 2006. We have the Harmony 880 for $229, with free shipping, so after rebate, your net cost is $179. That’s a pretty good deal for an excellent remote. In addition, for the lower-end Harmony 676 ($124.99 at Amazon) you end up with a new cost of $74.99.
An excellent review of the Harmony 880 is over at PVRBlog.
Well, we’ve run out of two models of the older, stock DirecTV TiVo models: the Philips DSR704 and the Hughes SD-DVR120. Interesting that we ran out of stock of both the smallest and largest of the group at the same time. We do have other 40 GB models (the Hughes SD-DVR40 and HDVR2) but no other 120 GB models at the moment, although we may get some Samsung S4120R units at some point.
We’ve been accumulating a stock of DIRECTV TiVos in preparation for the discontinuation of the line. We’ve put up a page full of these older TiVos on our site. We’ve got a variety of models.
Some important notes on these units: they don’t require any paperwork for us to ship, unlike the R10s. So if you order one, you can basically put it in your closet and sit on it if you want – you don’t have to activate it within any time frame, or ever. But you probably can’t qualify for the DirecTV rebate if you don’t activate one, at least for a short period.
Next, some of these units are more disposed towards adding features. If you dig around the web, you’ll find lots of features that can be added to DirecTV TiVos. The R10s generally can’t use most of these hacks, but these units can. So if you want a new box to use to experiment, you can find one here.
Finally, we’re really not sure how long we’ll have these. We do have more various units coming, but if you know you want one, best bet is to get it soon. Once they’re gone, we likely won’t be able to find more.
TiVo/DirecTV R10 DVRs are getting harder and harder to find. It seems that Circuit City, BestBuy, and Amazon are all out of stock on these. And since they’re out of production, there are no more to come to these retailers. We reported a few weeks ago that DirecTV is sending out R15 DVRs to people who call to ask for “TiVos”. So we can only assume they’re out also. We still have stock on these – we made a big purchase before they were all gone – but we won’t have them forever. If you want one, get it soon . . .
500 GB drive supplies are getting a bit more plentiful, so we’ve added some other configurations. Now, you can get the highest-capacity TiVo ever – 1300 hours in a Series 2 standalone unit. This is the first unit to solidly break the 1000 hour barrier – but don’t forget, that’s at the lowest quality recording level. At ‘Best’ you get about 360 hours.
We also have the R10 with 900 hours and the Humax DVD combo TiVo with 600 hours. And a few weeks ago we debuted the first ever terabyte TiVo as the HR10-250 HD TiVo with 130 HD Hours.
So we have three different terabyte models now, plus the DVD unit with 500 GB. All are running quite well (cool and quiet) with these new Seagate 500 GB drives. We’re starting to add kits to the site where appropriate – but if you don’t see what you want, as always, email us.