I’m surprised to say that we’ve had several requests for fan replacements for the TiVo Premiere and TiVo Premiere XL. Usually, if a unit isn’t a few years old, no one has problems with fan noise. For some reason, people are finding these units to have loud fans earlier in their life cycle. We really haven’t noticed this issue here, but we’re pretty much dealing with new unit here still.
In any event, we’ve got the fan if you want it. We’ve got fans for most TiVo DVRs. See our complete TiVo fan page.
In stock and shipping today at $89.99, the new TiVo Slide Remote contains a full QWERTY keyboard. This means you can enter long search terms faster and more easily. We’ve been asking for this for a while and we’re excited that it’s here!
The remote is like a shorter, fatter version of the standard TiVo peanut. It’s even shorter than the original Series1 remotes – yet it contains all of the buttons of the newest remotes – and, of course, more.
Slide open the top like a cell phone to reveal the full keyboard, and type away!
More great features of the TiVo Slide Remote:
Backlit, like the TiVo Glo remotes
Learning, so it can work with many more TVs and receivers
Uses BlueTooth – no line of sight needed!
The TiVo Slide remote works with any TiVo Series3 or TiVo Series4 DVR including the TiVo HD and TiVo Premiere lines. This remote will NOT work with Series2 or earlier DVRs, or with DirecTV TiVos.
We know that the world of networking your DirecTV equipment can be a little confusing, but the new DECA products make it much, much easier. In most cases, you won’t need to run any additional wiring to get your compatible units networked together, and even to connect your system to your broadband internet access.
Most of our customers just want their Multi Room Viewing. And we’re here to help.
DirecTV’s DECA components are the key to making this work seamlessly. But, as a new product, we’ve been getting tons of questions about what parts to get for each room/receiver in the house.
So we’ve build a configuration utility on our site to make finding the products as easy as using them. Give it a try!
DIRECTV has done an amazing job of producing components to make networking their HD DVRs very, very easy. Essentially, they’re using the same SWM cabling (pretty revolutionary stuff in and of itself) to also carry your network to your DVRs.
Includes Ethernet Cable (not shown)
The idea is that, with a DECA adapter, you are now able to attach your DVR to your other DVRs, creating a network. And, if you put a DECA adapter on your router (you’ll need the power supply for that) then you’ve just connected your DirecTV DVR network to the internet! So you can do Multi-room Viewing ($3/month DirecTV charge) and use the internet apps, on-demand, etc.
Further, the latest HD equipment from DirecTV, the HR24 and H24, have DECA built-in. You just plug in a SWM cable, and you’re on the network.
The newest DirecTV HD DVR is in stock and shipping! It’s the HR24, and it’s smaller, faster, and has built-in support for networking over SWM cables.
To begin with, this unit is smaller than previous DirecTV HD DVRs in its physical dimensions, and comes in smaller, more environmentally-friendly packaging. But the capacity is still 500 GB, and, at WeaKnees, we offer the HR24 in upgraded capacities to 2 TB – four times the size of the stock unit.
Next, reports are that this unit is faster due to new motherboard upgrades. In the short period of time we’ve been using these here, we’ve noticed. Speed is good! Even boot time has been improved.
The remote that ships with these units, the RC65RX, is two-way, meaning that the DVR can send info to the remote. That’s the first remote like that that we’ve seen from DirecTV, and it means that you can use the new UEI QuickSet to program your remote on-screen, without entering codes directly into the remote. It’s also an RF remote, and responsiveness is reported to be improved over previous versions. This remote also ships with the H24. (We’ll have the H24 up on our DirecTV receiver page soon.)
Networking really deserves its own blog post, and that will come. But this unit has DirecTV DECA adapters built-in, so if you have a DECA adapter connected to your internet router, and if you’re running a SWM system (green label) then you just need to plug one SWM cable into this unit to support both tuners AND networking – all through that one cable. It’s pretty amazing, and this will support multi-room viewing, some video-on-demand, the DirecTV App Store, and tons of other network and internet features.
Please note: This unit is NOT the DirecTV TiVo that both DirecTV and TiVo have been promising for almost two years now. We do still expect that to come, but not until the end of this year.
