There’s a new big boy in town – the 750 GB drive. We’ve got some (not too many, but we’re shipping today) in a few configurations to start. We’re selling the new Dual Tuner TiVo with one which gives 850 hours of space, at Basic Quality.
We have that same drive available for the Dual Tuner units as a kit, and as a single-drive replacment for the HR10-250.
750 GB TiVo Upgrade Kit for 649080
750 GB TiVo Upgrade Kit for 649180
750 GB TiVo Upgrade Kit for HR10-250
We’ve put up a new page about what the input options are on the Dual Tuner TiVo. So if you are on the fence or just want more info about what you can record based on your setup, you can take a look and hopefully figure out what the outcome would be.
TiVo Desktop 1.9.3 is out. The main news here: it’s a universal binary, so those of us on Intel-based Macs can now use it again. Works perfectly for me.
The new DT TiVos now feature a black remote and a black lid, and the front bezel surround is a steel gray. The gray matches the standard gray of many new stereo components. The evolution of the colors of these has an interesting parallel to the progression of color changes to Apple laptops. Both companies insisted on dark grays for years, while customers ached for either light gray or jet black. Apple finally went light gray. TiVo went mostly jet black, with a highlight of light gray. It looks great.
The DT units ship with 7.2.5 software, which must have been developed along with 7.2.1 for single-tuner units. The most obvious feature that this unit doesn’t have that 7.2.2 for single-tuner units has is the “undelete” feature. For us, the most obvious is that it won’t accept drop-in “add” drives, just as 7.2.1 didn’t. We expect an update to come soon to add “undelete”; we hope that update will also add back the ability to add drop-in kits.
OK – they’re up! We’re now selling kits for the new Dual Tuner Series 2 units. We have four sizes of “replace” kits. The largest gets you a 500 GB drive for 560 hours of recording at Basic Quality.
Kits for the 80 hour DT TiVo
Kits for the 180 hour DT TiVo
We’re still studying the viability of adding a second drive to the unit, due to the internal design changes. For now, you can pop a larger “replace” drive in (ideally before accumulating recordings on the new unit – or we can copy your information over with our copy service).