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Everyone’s Looking For: An HD TiVo with DVD

Sorry – it just doesn’t exist. We really wish it did. We have the standard definition Humax DVD unit, but nothing for the HD world.

There really aren’t even consumer-level DVD burners that can make Blu-ray DVDs at this point, and they may never come. With the HDCP copy protection on HD broadcasts, really the biggest candidate for recording to DVD in HD would be video from an HD video camera.

So what are the next-best options?

-Recording as standard def to DVD with a standalone player

or

-Transferring data to a Mac or PC over a network. For Macs, you’d need Roxio Toast, and for PCs you’d need TiVo Desktop Plus.

To transfer data, you need to have your TiVo on a network. If you aren’t already on a network, see our list of TiVo networking adapters.

Finally, we really don’t expect a unit with both HD and DVD to ever exist, so if you’re waiting for one to make the jump to HD, our advice would be to just get an HD unit now and enjoy it without DVD.

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TiVo in Canada – and we have the Perfect Unit!

OK – so Canadians have been using TiVo since long before TiVo really supported Canadian TV guides. And then, a few years ago, TiVo really started to expand into Canada with support for cable companies and six-digit postal codes. Here at WeaKnees, we’ve been shipping units to Canada for years – anything except DirecTV equipment.

Earlier this year in the US, we stopped broadcasting analog antenna signals. So for years in advance of this, US DVRs and TVs started to drop support for analog antenna broadcasts. And Canadians lost out – they’ve been unable to find TiVo DVRs that could record these signals, short of the HD models.

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But we have good stock of the Humax DVD TiVo units – the DRT400 and DRT800. These units are standard definition, they have built-in DVD burners (that’s a whole other world of goodness) and, best of all for Canadians, they have analog antenna inputs! So if you’re just watching good old-fashioned FREE antenna broadcasts and you want a TiVo, this unit is perfect!

For more good info on what works and what doesn’t in Canada see TiVo’s Canada information here. It’s a little dated about the lifetime service offer – that option is still available and is currently $399 for the first TiVo on your account, and $299 for each additional unit. Also, note that the unit on their page (which we sell also) does NOT have the antenna input necessary for reception of free analog broadcasts.

If you’re looking for an HD TiVo for Canada, our TiVo HD units will also record analog antenna as well as HD digital antenna signals. (Important note – HD TiVos cannot use CableCARDs in Canada because CableCARDs aren’t available.)

If you’d like an idea of what it will cost to have a unit shipped to Canada, please use our cart. It fully supports all Canadian postal codes and it will give you live, firm shipping prices.

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New Cart – New Coupons!

We’ve just updated our online cart to greatly increase the speed of the checkout process, and to take advantage of the latest security enhancements.

Our checkout is now entirely done on one page using AJAX and it’s fast! Come try it out!

We’ve got two coupons to get you to come and visit – they last until August 20, 2009:

–WK10 – $10 off any order over $100

and

–WK60 – $60 off any order over $500

The only items on the site that these won’t work with are our Humax DVD TiVos – and that’s because we already have a coupon for $100 off on these units (HUMAX100).

To use a coupon in our new one-page checkout process, look for the “Source Code” box:

Picture 4When you enter your Coupon Code and click on the arrow, you’ll see this:

Picture 6Note: you can also use these coupons in Google Checkout.

We hope you like the new checkout process, and we’ve got more features in the updated cart that we’ll be adding soon! Please send any feedback to [email protected] or post in the comments here.

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DirecTV HD TiVo Update

The update is:

No update. Sorry. We’re still hearing 2010.

Unfortunately, despite our best efforts to get some sort of update, we just can’t get anyone to talk about the release date. But we decided to post on the blog because we get SO many inquiries about this. We think this will be a very popular product.

Of course, since our two biggest interests are TiVo and DirecTV, we may be uniquely positioned to hear from everyone who wants information. But it’s a lot of people, generating a lot of pent-up demand.

If you want the latest news (when there actually is some), we’d recommend you:

1 – Sign up on TiVo’s list for DirecTV information.

2 – Sign up on our general list for TiVo and DirecTV news.

3 – Watch this blog.

4 – Follow us on Twitter.

As soon as we have any news, we’ll likely post it to here and on Twitter, and if it’s substantial, we’ll probably send out an email.

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$100 Off All Humax DVD TiVos!

We’re getting in a big batch of our ever-popular DVD TiVos today, so, for a limited time, we’re offering a coupon for $100 off these units. That brings the base unit to $149 – our lowest price ever!

Use Coupon Code: HUMAX100

If you’re looking for a standard def TiVo, these are perfect units. They can burn shows to DVD from your TiVo, or from an external source like a video camera. And they have all the regular TiVo features including the peanut remote, online scheduling, Season Passes, WishLists, etc.

Humax DVD TiVo
Humax DVD TiVo

We have these units in several capacities from 40 hours on up to close to 1000 hours.

And we have two varieties: the DRT400 and the DRT800. The DRT800 includes a FireWire port for grabbing video from a video camera and saving it to the DVR for viewing, or even for burning to DVD. The DRT400 can still import video from a camera or VCR, but only through analog inputs.

We’ve also lowered our prices on extended warranties for these unit. Come check out our complete Humax DVD TiVo selection!