Are the still offering to transfer a lifetime subscription? I have one
dating back to my Series 1 that I transfered to my S2DT. NOw I want to
transfer that to the HD version.
Bino Gopal wrote:
Well the TivoHD is pretty AWESOME! Note that I looked into it, and for
whatever reason the tuner on the Series2 is CRAP for SD and it will look a
lot worse than your cable box (I don't know why; it just does; plenty of
posts to confirm this).
So going to the TivoHD made that SD stuff look better, but I record almost
everything in HD and DAMN does it look good! I got a TivoHD for $200 and
they transferred my service from my series1 (circa 2000) for free so it was
quite a deal. I ordered the 1TB HD for $100 and at that price point it
can't be beat! But if you have to get a new one, it gets more expensive,
though I still say buy the lifetime if you plan on keeping it long enough...
Note that you can only get 2.2TB of storage on any Tivo, mainly due to
firmware limits by Tivo; and the biggest internal drive you can put in a
TivoHD is 1.2TB (the original drive + 1TB) and I can add a 1TB external
storage drive, but there are too many problems with external storage at this
point...here's the official upgrade thread; definitely read it; it tells you
everything in much better detail than I just did! ;)
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=5616160#post5616160
Anyway, HTH!
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Fisk
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Best DVR/TivoHD upgrade drive?
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I wouldn't worry about green at all...i'd worry about noise
level...tivos with noisy HD will ruin your HD experience.
Cool & Quiet are what you want. Then Size, then way way down on the list
is speed. I recently had a drive failure in my series 2 TiVo and tossed
in a pair of extra drives I had kicking around (A 200GB and 250GB drive)
just to get it back up and running. I can hear them working when my TV is
off, but my hearing is bad enough that my volume on my TV is always higher
than it really should be, so that drowns out the HDD noises.
I will eventually get myself either a series 3 or a TiVo HD and upgrade
that as far as it'll go. But I'm still saving for that.
Christopher Fisk
