
It looks like the rumored benchmark price of $800 for the Series 3 TiVo could very well be the actual price. As seen in the picture above from Engadget, the October issue of Popular Mechanics has stated a TiVo Series 3 price of $800.
Whether they have got inside information, or are making an educated guess which they feel confident in we cannot be sure. But it does give the feeling that a price tag of $800 for the Series 3 is what TiVo will announce any time soon.









1. $800 sounds pretty believable for the initial price, remember the early adopters will pay almost anything for the new hot tech toy.
I don't remember how much the original Series1 cost when it came out, or for that matter the original Series2, but I do know they are much more expensive than even the Series2 DT is now.
I would expect the price to come down after the holidays and be closer to, maybe even under $500 (at least after rebate) by this time next year.
Hardware wise the Series3 probably cost a decent amount more to make with a much bigger hard drive and guaranteed more memory & processing power, the prices of these components will come down and allow TiVo to lower the price of the unit.
Licensing costs are also probably a factor, I don't know if TiVo needs to pay CableLABS & whoever owns the HDMI spec a per unit licensing fee but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, there are enough new technologies in the Series3 that the licensing fees alone could very well cost more than the Series2 does now.
Posted at 11:57AM on Sep 6th 2006 by Robert Aitchison