We’ve been selling these for a while, but we finally put them up on our website as one entire product. It’s a TiVo Series3 with a one terabyte internal drive, and a one terabyte external drive. Both are used together to allow you to record up to 292 hours of HD, or 2777 hours of SD, or, as is pretty much always the case, a combination of both.
Now through the end of the year, if you use Google Checkout to shop at WeaKnees.com, you can get 2 frequent flyer miles per $1 spent! And that’s in addition to any rewards you get from the credit card that you use with Google Checkout. Participating airlines are Continental, Delta, Midwest, Northwest, US Airways, and United.
To start, go to your Google Checkout account and add your frequent flyer information (as far as we understand, you have to do this BEFORE you make the purchase with us or another Google Checkout merchant).
Add Mileage Account to Google Checkout account
Then come shop at your favorite TiVo Superstore and be sure to checkout using Google Checkout!
This lasts until 12/31/07, and you can get a maximum of 10,000 miles per Google Checkout account (US residents only). So if you think you’ll purchase products with us early in the next year, you can always get a gift certificate and lock in your miles now for you purchases later!
We’re in final testing of our Terabyte TiVos. For the Series3, these units offer 144 hours of HD space!
We’re still making sure these units are totally ready for prime time in every way. We hope to have them authorized for sale soon. Initially, we’ll probably have a pretty small stock of these as the drives trickle out . . .
People know WeaKnees as the “TiVo Upgrade Company” but many call with other DVRs looking for upgrades. Some can be upgraded (all by us) and some can’t.
First: the confusion. The word “TiVo” has become so widely used that people often come to us for a “TiVo upgrade” when they really have a DVR that runs non-TiVo software. But we can still help with many of those. So here’s the list:
TiVo brand DVRs: We can upgrade the capacity on any TiVo DVR. Every model from the HDR series to the Series3, we can do it. Even models with DirecTV, or with DVD burners. If it runs TiVo, we can upgrade it.
If you have a TiVo DVR, find your model in our TiVo upgrade list and you can choose from the options. For most models, we have both add and replace kits – more info on the differences is here. For either type, our drives are formatted here at WeaKnees and don’t need to be prepared in a PC in any way before installation on the customer side.
ReplayTV DVRs: We have larger drives for every model of ReplayTV DVR ever produced. We only have one type of upgrade kit for ReplayTV models. In all cases, you remove the drive that was in the system and put our new, pre-formatted drive in. Sizes vary by model – see our full list of ReplayTV upgrade kits.
Scientific Atlanta Explorer DVRs: There are several SA DVRs out there, but a popular model, the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD is, fortunately, upgradeable. This is an HD DVR for use with several cable systems including Cox, Cablevision, Time Warner, Comcast, and others. The problem is, it only has a 160 GB drive inside. We sell external, plug-and-play drives for this unit that will add up to 300 GB more storage space. We use a special enclosure that Maxtor designed specifically to be compliant with this one DVR.
Please read the notes on this unit. Only models running SARA software are upgradeable; units with Passport software cannot be upgraded. Please see our Scientific Atlanta 8300HD Upgrade Kits.
UltimateTV DVRs for DirecTV: They’re getting old, but people who have them still love them. They have two tuners, and picture-in-picture and they do a great job with DirecTV. And if you want more space, or if the drive in your unit has failed, we’ve got the answer. We have UltimateTV Upgrade Kits that work in both the RCA and Sony models.
That’s the current list as of February 2007. If you have a DVR that you want to upgrade and we don’t mention it, feel free to send us an email to see what we have in the works. We do know that the DISH DVRs are not upgradeable (or even salvageable if they have a bad drive) and they likely never will be. We’ll be keeping our eyes on the Apple TV when it ships, and whatever else comes out in this arena.
As we transition from our almost-depleted stock of new DirecTV R10 TiVo DVRs, we’re starting in on our stock of refurbished units. Largely, these are old customer returns for non-defective reasons (meaning customers didn’t want them). They’ve been tested, and our internal testing is showing them to be rock-solid.
So these units present us a bunch of challenges. Do people want them bare, or with drives? Are they replacing old units that already have a card, or do the customers need access cards? Does the customer have a remote from an older unit?
To make these units work for everyone, we’ve redesigned our DirecTV TiVo page. Now you can choose what you want exactly, and only pay for what you need. So far, customers seem to be extremely happy with the flexibility.
One final note: as our R10 stock depletes, so does our HR10 stock. If you’re looking for an HR10, get one soon! We won’t have them much longer.