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As I’ve mentioned before, we’re huge fans of the new Google service!
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“Add” kits and “Replace” Kits
We get the question every day: what’s the difference between an “Add” kit and a “Replace” kit?
The basic bottom line is this: Replace kits are meant to go in your unit in place of the hard drive(s) in there now. They have the right TiVo OS on them for your exact model of TiVo, and when you pop one in and start back up, you’re in Guided Setup, just like when you first installed your unit (except maybe a much newer version of Guided Setup – we try to keep sending out the latest stable OS).
Add kits, on the other hand, are formatted entirely differently, and usually ship with additional parts. Add kits are essentially filled with extra storage partitions. Your TiVo’s factory drive sees the partitions, “marries” to them, and starts loading them up.
More info is here:
The key is to know which you want, and to order appropriately. One really isn’t a substitute for the other. But both units are considered “upgrade” kits since either way you go, in most cases you get far more storage than you had before.
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Dual Tuner TiVo Brackets are in!
They came in today, and many are shipping out today. We have a page for the dual tuner TiVo bracket alone for those looking to do a self-install – maybe with a little TiVo upgrade help. And then we have complete TiVo Upgrade Kits for the 80 hour dual tuner TiVo and kits for the 180 hour dual tuner TiVo.
Finally, we can now start shipping our huge 1800 Hour Dual Tuner TiVo.
Our new Dual Tuner TwinBreeze bracket has been finalized and is in production now. Based on the previous designs, this bracket is the rigid, stable, and vibration absorbing way to install two drives in your Dual Tuner TiVo safely. As with other members of the TwinBreeze family, this bracket holds a second fan to get even more air through the unit and underneath both drives.
While the brackets are making their way to our door, we’re taking pre-orders on the “add” kits and dual-drive kits for these units. So if you’d like to be first in line to get an “add” kit for your Dual Tuner TiVo, start here:
80 Hour Dual Tuner TiVo
180 Hour Dual Tuner TiVo
We hope to be shipping these before 8/15/06, but that’s the date we put on the website just in case.
Many of our customers want the best of both worlds – DirecTV, plus TiVo networking features and maybe even DVD. DirecTV TiVos don’t do networking or DVD, so these customers opt to use standalone TiVos or DVD TiVos with a DirecTV receiver. This has always worked pretty well. Until recently.
DirecTV ‘updated’ to their latest basic receiver model, the D11. The D11 doesn’t have a serial port, so the only way for a TiVo to control it is to use an IR blaster. While they certainly work, they aren’t the best option. The speed isn’t perfect, there can be IR interference, and, probably the biggest source of problems, the blaster can move.
DirecTV’s previous unit, the D10, has a serial port, and the TiVo (standalone or DVD) can control it directly, with a Home Control cable. This eliminates all of the problems listed above.
WeaKnees has sourced brand-new D10 receivers, and we are optionally bundling them with the Home Control cable.