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Have SA, now thinking D-TiVo??
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Posted by: Bubbamill

Boy, these things are addictive!

I have a TiVo brand SA series 2 that I have upgraded with the twin-breeze and dual 120GB Maxtors. We currently have analog cable.

The TiVo experience has been so good, we are thinking of getting direct-TV and dropping cable.

So my initial D-TV install would be an eliptical dish feeding two D-TiVos and three D-TV receivers. Is that nuts or what?

My question is, what do I do with my 6 week old upgraded SA? Can it be used somehow with D-TV? Or should I just take the drives out of it and use them to upgrade the space on the two new D-TiVos?

Any opinions?

:confused:

Posted by: TonyM

quote:
Originally posted by Bubbamill
Boy, these things are addictive!

I have a TiVo brand SA series 2 that I have upgraded with the twin-breeze and dual 120GB Maxtors. We currently have analog cable.

The TiVo experience has been so good, we are thinking of getting direct-TV and dropping cable.

So my initial D-TV install would be an eliptical dish feeding two D-TiVos and three D-TV receivers. Is that nuts or what?

My question is, what do I do with my 6 week old upgraded SA? Can it be used somehow with D-TV? Or should I just take the drives out of it and use them to upgrade the space on the two new D-TiVos?

Any opinions?

:confused:

I just upgraded to DTivo from a SA with Dishnetwork. Now that I have gone DirecTivo I have killed the sub on the SA and upgraded the Dtivo with the drives from the SA.

Dual Tuners is awesome. Once you experience it, you'll most likely not want the SA anymore. I'm selling mine on Ebay.

Cheers.

Posted by: Bubbamill

Cool! Sounds like the way to go.

How does the pricing work? Since the D-TiVo needs two signal feeds, do they charge the $4.95 fee for the extra hookup? And then do I pay TiVo their own $12.95 fee on top of it all? Or is their some sort of combo price?

Posted by: invisible

they don,t charge you for the dual tuner and I think its $8.95 a month for the fee.I agreed to keep platinum service(all channels)for 1 year and they waived the service fee.

Posted by: TonyM

quote:
Originally posted by Bubbamill
Cool! Sounds like the way to go.

How does the pricing work? Since the D-TiVo needs two signal feeds, do they charge the $4.95 fee for the extra hookup? And then do I pay TiVo their own $12.95 fee on top of it all? Or is their some sort of combo price?

As Invisible said, They don't charge you for each tuner, they call it one receiver.

However, the fee is $4.99, unless you have Total Choice Premium, then the $4.99 is waived and you get the DVR usage for free.

-Tony

Posted by: DrEvil

No you are not crazy for wanting a multi-DirecTiVo household. Or I'm crazy because I have four? :)

You could use your SA TiVo with one of the three standard DirecTV receivers, but that would entail a Digital to Analog to Digital conversion and would result in a lower picture quality than a DirecTiVo that records the digital stream directly. I'd use the hard drives to upgrade the DirecTiVo's.

The pricing - SA TiVo's are $12.95 a month EACH or $299 lifetime. The DirecTiVo's have a $4.99 a month service fee for as many as you want on your account, no lifetime is available anymore. If you subscribe to the Total Choice Premiere package then the $4.99 TiVo service fee is waved. No extra charge for dual tuners. There is also a $4.99 a month mirror charge for each extra receiver, so in your example there will be four $4.99 mirror charges for the second DirecTiVo and the three standard receivers.