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In Reply to: RE: Notes on the transition to digital TV posted by tunenut on June 23, 2008 at 13:37:18
It has an internal tuner, it's HD-capable and it allows you to pause and rewind live TV. Of course, its real value is unlocked by signing up for Tivo service.
I had serious problems after the first year I owned the Series 3 but Tivo sent me a replacement and it has performed flawlessly (so far). I can recommend it.
-------------Call it, friendo.
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I'm not at all interested in signing up for monthly service, but if I don't need to do that, I could get this kind of DVR.
I don't have HD, but may pretty soon (I'm getting good OTA HD signals now)- and at that point recording HD would become important, something the normal DVD recorder does not do.
I'm not sure how to get permanent copies saved from a DVR, it is probably not that easy, so the DVD recorder might be nice to have anyway.
But Tivo gives you free service for the first couple weeks and it becomes so convenient you can't live without it. When the grace period ends, even features like one-touch record are wiped out and you lose a lot of functionality. I was too spoiled by the service to give it up, so I signed up for three years (if you opt for paying for two years up front, you get a free year) and it came to an average of under $9 a month. I had just cancelled my DirecTV service at $50/month, so I was still saving more than $40 every month.
I think there is a way to record to your computer hard drive if you have the Tivo hooked up to a network router. From there, you can burn to DVD. Or you can just save shows you like on your Tivo hard drive. Since you don't watch HD content, you could save over 200 hours worth of content on the Tivo Series 3. Really a nice machine, as long as it's working.
-------------Call it, friendo.
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