We’re working hard on getting the TiVo Roamio upgraded beyond its current 3 TB limit. We’ve successfully been upgrading the Premiere line to 4 TB for a few years, so that’s been the largest DVR around.
Currently, we’ve got a 7 TB unit up and running. Not sure how soon we’ll have kits for it, but we’re pounding away at it to make sure it’s stable.
And, as soon as we’re certain it’s stable, you’ll be able to get 1120 hours of HD in your Roamio . . .
We’re happy to announce that we now have TiVo Upgrade Kits available for the TiVo Series5 Roamio DVRs.
Today we are releasing 2 and 3 Terabyte upgrade kits for the Roamio and Roamio Plus models. These are fully internal upgrades based on Western Digital’s line of AV drives, like the drives TiVo uses in the Plus and Pro models.
You can find kits here, by model:
TiVo Roamio TCD846500 (base model) upgrade kits
TiVo Roamio Plus TCD848000 upgrade kits
The 2 TB kits provide for about 320 hours of HD recording space, and the 3 TB kits provide for about 475 hours of HD recording space.
Here’s a screenshot of a 3 TB kit in a TiVo Roamio Plus:
We are still working on larger and two-drive upgrade kits, so if you think you’ll need more than 3 TB total, we’ll likely have something for you soon!
For a limited time, we have cut prices on ALL TiVo Premiere DVRs by $40 to $50. This includes stock units as well as upgraded models. This applies to Premiere, Premiere 4, and Premiere XL4 (Elite) models.
Please note that due to the way our cart works, these may look like permanent price drops, but the discounts are only guaranteed through mid-August.
All units are in stock!
We don’t have a ton of information yet about the upcoming C41W – the wireless Genie Client from DIRECTV – but we’ve got some info. We have a new DIRECTV Genie C41W page on our site which will be where we’ll take orders for the item once we have an idea of when we’ll have it in stock.
This unit will work off a wireless signal from a DIRECTV wireless base station. This is NOT a Wifi adapter, nor will a Wifi adapter help or interfere. And, the Wifi built into the HR44 won’t talk to the C41W (although that can bridge internet to the C41W through the proprietary wireless connection).
The C41W will ship with the RC71 remote. DIRECTV says the C41W is expected to work through roughly five walls and 75 feet. Like all wireless products, range and signal quality will vary in every house and simply won’t work everywhere.
One wireless base station can handle all of the clients. But you will also be able to have multiple base stations to get better coverage around your installation. All base stations need to be wired into the SWM network.
More info as we have it . . .
Just an update to some previous blog posts – both the new DIRECTV Genie Server HR44 and the DIRECTV Genie Client C41 are in stock and shipping.
These are nicer, faster, smaller than their predecessors and both come with the two-way RF remote, the DIRECTV RC71.