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New Tivo on the way?
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Posted by: slagg

I was at the store ready to buy a second Tivo (DESPITE frustration with the lexus ads) -- and the salesman told me to hold off because there is a new Tivo model coming out early next year. He says they are clearing out their inventory to prepare for this.

Does anyone have news on this? -- or know what might be in the new models?

Posted by: stevel

The only "new TiVo" that's been revealed to us is based on what you can buy now as the "AT&T Broadband" version - bigger hard disk, "value-engineered" to be lower cost to produce, and with USB ports. The indications are that no new combo units are due anytime soon.

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Steve (Sony SVR-2000, 103+ hours, TiVoNET, Dish Network)
(Philips DSR6000 (pending installation))

Posted by: linh

Unless of course they've heard our pleas and a made a dual-tuner SA. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Posted by: feldon23

How much would you pay for a dual-tuner TiVo? $700?

Posted by: destek

$639.92

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quote:
Joyless tubes of meat and grissle, soaking in something hot and sad.

<FONT size="1">Douglas Adams describing English Sausage</FONT s>

Posted by: erivers

gristle

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I feel more like I do right now than I have all day.

Posted by: feldon23

I've told him it's "gristle" too. He ignored me.

And honestly, using the quote feature of UBB is pretty wasteful of screen space. A simple pair of quote marks would do the job.

Posted by: slagg

It seems like if Tivo wants to save money they'd add an Ethernet port -- all those tivos phoning home over dialup must cost a bundle.

I'd love to get rid of my wireless phone connector thing and put an 802.11b card in my Tivo instead, personally.

AND dual tuners. I'd pay handsomely for that ...

(and no lexus ads ... http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif )

Posted by: Knouse

quote:
Originally posted by slagg:
I was at the store ready to buy a second Tivo . . . and the salesman told me to hold off because there is a new Tivo model coming out early next year. He says they are clearing out their inventory to prepare for this.

Somehow I doubt a retail floor salesperson would be privy to this sort of information. Somehow it doesn't seem credible TiVo would let this sort of information out at the height of the selling season. I do wonder why a salesperson would discourage a sale.

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Philips 30 hr SA, Lifetime Service, 2.5.1, DISH, Sony 19 in.
Philips 142 hr SA, monthly service, 2.5.1, DISH, Sony 36 in. XBR

Posted by: jmccorm

quote:
Originally posted by Knouse:
Somehow I doubt a retail floor salesperson would be privy to this sort of information.

Having once been a sales droid myself, I'd say it is credible for a droid to know when a store is wanting to clear its inventory of an item. Slightly less crediblity would be given to a sales droid knowing that a new model was coming in after the holiday season. (And admittedly, he isn't a good droid if he told you to wait, but probably a decent human being.)

I wouldn't be too quick to poo-poo on this.

Posted by: destek

Ok - Gristle. I repiared it...

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Joyless tubes of meat and gristle, soaking in something hot and sad.

<FONT size="1">Douglas Adams describing English Sausage</FONT s>

Posted by: Larry in TN

For what would the USB port be used?

Anyone running with the ethernet adapter add-on they sell at the 9th tee? Seems that with the recent growth of consumer broad band such an option would be quite popular.

Oh, how do you find out if your city has a local phone number for updates?

Posted by: stevel

The USB port could be used for a future networking adapter, a keyboard, external storage, all sorts of things.

For local access numbers, look at the POP list at www.uu.net

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Steve (Sony SVR-2000, 103+ hours, TiVoNET, Dish Network)
(Philips DSR6000 (pending installation))

Posted by: Larry in TN

Thanks, found the phone number.