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2 TB Drives for More HD TiVos

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:

TiVo Series3 TCD648250B

TiVo HD TCD652160

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:

TiVo HD XL TCD658000

TiVo Premiere TCD746320

TiVo Premiere XL TCD748000

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DirecTV HD TiVo is Here – Sort Of

No, no, we don’t have the new DirecTV TiVo that both companies have been promising for more than two years now. But we do have the old one, the DirecTV HR10-250.

The DirecTV HR10-250 was, when it was initially released, the first HD TiVo, and pretty much the first HD DVR on any platform. It’s a great unit, and it works perfectly with OTA (over the air) antenna signals for pretty much the best quality HD broadcast streams available.

The big issue with the HR10-250 is that it can only decode MPEG2 channels from a DirecTV dish. So, while it will get almost all standard definition channels that DirecTV supplies, it won’t get any HD signals from DirecTV. They’ve migrated their HD channels to the MPEG4 format, and this unit just can’t read those.

But the DirecTV HR10-250 TiVo can receive, in HD, OTA signals, the signals that your local broadcaster sends out. Because the FCC gave local broadcasters so much bandwidth, these companies barely compress their signal at all (much less than DirecTV) and this results in the best quality HD broadcast available. We routinely compared recordings from OTA and DirecTV back when this unit could get DirecTV HD, and the OTA was always vastly superior.

So the HR10-250 can get HD from local broadcasters, and standard def local and premium channels from DirecTV. And, best of all, it’s a TiVo. That combination works for many people (myself included) and, until (or “if”) the new, promised unit ships, this is the best mix of interface and programming.

We now have a page dedicated to purchasing this unit from us, refurbished. See our DirecTV HD TiVo page for more info.

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WeaKnees in the News!

Courtesy of Dave’s TiVo and a transfer with TiVo Desktop, here’s a clip of us on KTLA News at 10 last week:

Dave: VERY nicely done! Thanks for coming in!

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Max Power Leaves WeaKnees for BBQ Catering

Yesterday marked the last day of a WeaKnees employee who is moving on to smokier places. Longtime WeaKnees-er Max Power is bringing his tenure here to an end, in search of the holy BBQ.

If you’ve called us, chatted online with us, or sent your TiVo in for repair, you’ve probably come into contact with Max Power at some point. From here on through, if you want to come into contact with him, you’ll have to order up a rack of ribs, because he’s a rack-man now.

Max has been working on perfecting his skills with the BBQ smoker for several years now, and he’s going full speed ahead on his catering business, Max City BBQ. If you’re looking for smoked ribs, smoked brisket, his specialty (and our favorite) pulled pork, you can do no better this side of the New Mexico, than Max City BBQ. Guaranteed. Max has been generously feeding us here for years, and we can’t get enough. Beyond the smoked meats, he’s got a very, very solid array of sides and desserts including mac’n’cheese, baked beans, and a key lime pie that, alone, would be worthy of a side business.

To find Max, and get him to make any party into a hit, use the link above or find his LA BBQ catering Yelp info.

Max – keep in touch! We wish you the best!

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Search Feature on the WeaKnees Site (again)

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!