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250 GB Drives Still Around – Blog Special!

For several days, due to a great deal from our distributor, we had been selling 250 GB drives for certain models in certain configurations at the price of 160 GB drives – $119. We’ve now taken this special off of our home page, and replaced it with the amazing $99 deal for the Humax T2500.

But we do still have some of the 250s around, so we’re making this special offer to our blog readers only: get a 250 for the price of a 160 through Sunday, June 22, 2008. We’ll try to make it as easy as possible to take advantage of this deal, so just read the details:

-Order the 160 GB Replace kit for your model so you are charged the right price. Then, use the code below.

-This ONLY applies to replace kits and not add kits. Next, since this special deal is only on PATA drives, this does NOT apply to the TiVo HD or TiVo Series3 upgrades.

-This isn’t a coupon code, but a code you enter in the “Customer Notes” area below the “Credit Card” information on the final checkout screen. The code is “WKBLOG250” and here’s how it should look:

 

-Finally – here’s a way to save even more: Use Google Checkout to get a further $10 off – so $109 for a 250 GB replace kit! If you use Google Checkout, you never see the field above. In this case, just send an email after you place your order to [email protected] with your Google order number as the subject and the code “WKBLOG250” in the body.

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Surge in TiVo Power Supply Sales

With the amount of storms around the country at the moment, it seems that power supplies in TiVos are blowing out at a pretty swift pace. Our sales of TiVo power supplies have tripled in the last week. Thankfully, we have them for every model of TiVo ever produced, except the Toshiba SD-H400. See our TiVo power supply page for more info.

If you think your power supply may have failed, you should see our post for help diagnosing TiVo power supply issues. The short recap: no video at all, not even the gray screen, means TiVo power supply failure almost always. Even if the fan and/or hard drive still spins. 

But if you do get video out, like a gray “powering up” screen, then you likely have hard drive failure, and you need a new TiVo drive “replace” kit.

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DirecTV Replacement Remotes

We’re now carrying several replacement DirecTV remotes.

First up, we have the standard Peanut style remote for all DirecTV TiVo users, except the SAT T-60. See our DirecTV TiVo Peanut Remote page. We’ve got the type that came with the original DirecTV TiVos, then the variety that came starting with the HDVR2 with more buttons, and, finally, the HR10-250 remotes.


For the non-TiVo HD DVRs, we have three options that work with any and all DirecTV equipment (even the TiVos, and even the SAT T-60):

RC23/RC32 – these two are essentially the same remote. They’re the standard one that comes with most plain-vanilla DirecTV receivers.

RC64 – These come with most HD DirecTV equipment, and have the Format button. They are also RF capable, so if your DirecTV receiver supports RF reception, this can be used with that. More info on another blog post.

RC64RB – The newest, latest, greatest, this has all of the functionality of the RC64, plus it’s backlit! Even for us TiVo peanut-partisans, this is a pretty nice remote.

See these last three on our DirecTV remotes page.

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New Special: 250 GB Drives for $119

Our distributor made us a very good deal on some Seagate DB35 250GB drives, so we’re putting them in our TiVo upgrade kits at the same price as where we normally sell 160GB kits. To get this special offer, you need to order from the special on our homepage.

These kits are available for any TiVo that uses IDE (not SATA) drives, so that’s any TiVo except the TiVo HD and the TiVo Series3. One final note, these are only available as “replace” kits – not “add” kits. For more information on the differences, see our add-replace TiVo upgrade options page.

Get one while supplies last! And, yes, this deal can be combined with the current $10 off with Google Checkout.

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New Use for a SWM: Diplexing OTA

(Note: that’s not “an” SWM, since it’s generally read as “swim,” at least, in these parts.)

A customer just purchase a SWM from us, and he plans to solve a slightly different problem than we’ve previously encountered: he couldn’t get KCET (our local PBS station) in HD, since DirecTV doesn’t carry that signal in HD, even over the 5LNB dish.

He previously had KCET in HD from his OTA antenna, but when he upgraded to MPEG4, he lost the ability to diplex the OTA signal into his satellite cables. But, with the SWM, the ability to diplex OTA (or cable, or most CCTV signals) into the stacked satellite signal is back. DirecTV made sure to keep their signals on different frequencies than the common cable and antenna frequencies.

So if you’ve been stuck with a choice between OTA and MPEG4 due to the number of cables, this box can solve that problem.