It was bound to happen at some point or another, but who expected it this soon? Mr. Dave Zatz of Zatz Not Funny fame has posted his Hands on with the TiVo Series 3 story at the wee hours of the AM Tuesday morning.
Dave has had the Series 3 for a good 30 days and has written up an extensive preview over at Engadget. More photos from his review and several more details if you follow the link.
Some highlights include:
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TiVo Interface is relatively unchanged.
- Toggling between tuners can be performed via the programming info menu or by pressing the LiveTV button on the remote.
- Any two incoming signals can be recorded simultaneously with the option of watching a third signal of recorded content.
- Familiar features such as Wishlists, Suggestions, and Season Passes are present. Music and photo streaming from Mac or PC also work as expected.
- $799 will be the price as speculated
- Service fees remain $12.95 a month, or $6.95/month for those who currently have a non-bundled pricing unit subscription.
And for the question on availability. Units go on sale today at TiVo.com and you should start seeing them trickle into the retail channel next week.
In addition videos of the unboxing, startup sequence, and video mode options can be found here.
Thanks to Dave Zatz and Engadget on the posts.
1. I'm ready to buy, but i need to know about the esata external drive connection. is that ready to implement right out of the box? i can't handle 30 hours. i need to upgrade right away. if people already have the unit, why have they not tested this out yet? is there any information about this? does the software in the series 3 support external storage out of the box?
Posted at 8:23AM on Sep 12th 2006 by Andy