The TiVo Premiere Elite will be shipping starting tomorrow, October 10, from our Los Angeles warehouse.
We’ve successfully upgraded the unit to 4 TB for a total of about 640 hour of HD recording space. And these are also shipping, starting tomorrow. These units use a 2 TB internal drive, and a 2 TB external drive. Both drives are WD AV Green power models.
See our TiVo Premiere Elite models.
Most TiVo DVRs require a subscription to TiVo to do anything at all – without the subscription, they’d be a boat anchor.
But TiVo does have the Product Lifetime Service option (PLS) which means that you pay once for service for your unit, and that unit gets TiVo service as long as it’s in operation. PLS costs $499 currently, or $399 if you already have a TiVo account.
Since the PLS is tied to the unit and can’t be moved, we’ve have some units here with PLS on them, for considerably less than $499. So if you’re interested in buying a TiVo DVR that won’t incur monthly service fees, see our page of TiVo DVRs with prepaid Lifetime service.
Prices start at $199.
If you really want to load up your original AppleTV with tons of music and movies, we now have an even larger upgrade available, to 2 TB. This is double our prior largest size.
For a point of comparison, the original AppleTV debuted with a 40 GB drive. Then, Apple began offering it in 160 GB versions. We can upgrade either to 320 GB internally. And we can go up to 2 TB with an external drive.
You do still need to send us the AppleTV for us to prepare your unit with the external, since it requires an internal, reversible modification to route a cable out of the box for the external drive.
Final note: these upgrades only work on the original style of AppleTV, pictured above, with storage. The newer, black AppleTVs are streaming-only and can’t support local storage at all.
See our 2 TB AppleTV upgrades.
Today, we’re debuting 2 TB single-drive internal kits for two very popular TiVo models: The TiVo HD and the original TiVo Series3.
With these kits, your TiVo will be able to record about 320 hours of HD, or just a ton of SD.
For several years we’ve had 2 terabyte solutions for the TiVo Series3 and the TiVo HD that consisted of an internal 1 TB drive and an external 1 TB drive. Now, we’ve got upgrades of a single 2 TB drive in the unit – no external needed.
This is the better scenario for several reasons including fewer cables, lower power requirements, simpler installation and setup, and, of course, a lower price.
The 2 TB single drive internal TiVo upgrade kits are now available for these two models:
In addition, we’ve been selling single 2 TB upgrades for these three models for a while now – and we’ve lowered the price of these kits as of today:
Last week, we added a search feature to our site. It’s based on Google’s Custom Search Engine application. Being a Google product, it’s pretty sophisticated, and while we’re still tweaking it, we’re pretty happy with it so far.
Ironically, as I write this blog post, I realize that the first blog post we wrote on here was about a new search feature we had added. We did use that for a while, but eventually we decided that it was hurting more than helping – delivering results that were more frustrating than useful.
But we’ve revisited the issue, found the Google app with reasonable pricing, and so we’re trying it again. Please tell us what you think!