Looks like a good deal, keep in mind the $50 rebate requires subscribing to TIVO service. To bad its not Tivo and DVD-R at that price.

From the $50 rebate form (TiVo manufacturer rebate):

<< DVRs with TiVo Basic TM service are not eligible for $50 rebate >>

If you don't subscribe to the service, and just use the TiVo Basic (three days of guide data, no Season Passes or Wishlists), then you can't get the $50 rebate. But as a TiVo owner (with four units and lifetime subscriptions for each), the $12.95 per month service is way more than worth it. Your TiVo is not complete without it. I would go further and say that the full lifetime service at $300 is a bargain.

Check out this page for a good description of the differences between TiVo Basic, TiVo Plus, and TiVo Plus with Home Media Option.

--Chris

PS-- $210 is a good price, by the way. I will be recommending this deal to some friends. Just make sure you understand that you need to get the service in order to get the $50 rebate, and that the service is worth the price.

Pretty good deal..

Don't hesitate if you aren't sure about TiVo, once you have it you won't know how you lived without it

Looks like a good deal to me, although I wonder if Tivo BASIC can retrieve the Guide data for Dishnetwork?

Both Tivo Basic and full Tivo service can handle Dish Newtork. Guide data covers all major service providers (cable companies, DirecTV, Dish, and OTA stations), and is organized by zip code. It might take a bit of tinkering in menus to fine tune Tivo to recognize only those channels you receive, but once set up, it works fine.

Tivo Basic service downloads 3 days of programming information at a time, and has some limited search functionality. It does not include "wish lists" (auto-recording of programs you request by title, actor, or keyword-- i.e. "record all movies directed by Kevin Smith" or "season passess" (auto-recording of every episode of a given show-- i.e. all "Simpsons" episodes) or "suggestions" (Tivo highlights and, if space is available, records shows it thinks you might like based on other things you've recorded). Those features are only available with full Tivo service, which is $12.99 per month or a flat $300 for the lifetime of the unit.

The units here are all considered "stand alone" units that will require you to rig an infrared device (included) to change channels on your satellite box. Some people have had minor difficulty in making this work well, but it's never been a problem for me.

Note that this does not write dvds from the stored data on the TIVO. Too bad, at this price I would have bought if it had that capability.

ibm650 said:

<< Note that this does not write dvds from the stored data on the TIVO. Too bad, at this price I would have bought if it had that capability. >>


If you get a ReplayTV unit, you can use the free DVArchive program to copy shows from the Replay to your PC, then burn DVDs from there.

This is a good deal, I'm going to replace one of my 60 hour Series 2 units with this Toshiba, it'll reduce some clutter in my bedroom entertainment unit, and my crappy Norcent DVD player is starting to fail anyhow. After selling my 60 hour unit with Lifetime + Home Media Option service, I should be able to subscribe this one to Lifetime at little or no cost, all said an done.

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Stinkah said:

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$359.99 - $3.96 FatCash - $150 MIRs = $206.03 (plus your tax)

I'm a Tivo newbie, but seems like a decent deal, and combining tivo with DVD helps reduce cabinet/cable clutter.

Oh, and this thread documents on how to use WiFi to download program info:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?threadid=150363

Thoughts on this deal? Please, no replay/tivo debates. >>


i hates to bust yo bubel but directv has these hear for $59 dollars. i done got me too of these hear and gots one on the way fo my momma you know what im sayin. they weres good to but you gots to hav a phone line i had to get it mines hooked bak up case i was just usin my girls car phone you know what im sayin. other than that its allrite

how does it download episode information? can i hook it up to my 4 port router which is attached to my cable modem?