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ChadTower:

Home built?

Jeff AMN:
No, Sony made it a couple of years ago. TiVo kinda pressured big box companies like Best Buy into giving it crap for shelf space. I don't know why it didn't take off. I has full HDMI/component/composite/s-video support, a 250GB hard drive, and a pretty slick interface.

I think it was $400 brand new, and now used ones go for around $500 or higher. I think you can mod them to put in a larger drive, but space has never been an issue. I have all of season 3 of Lost on there in HD, most of the Heroes season in HD, and a few other things. I think I still have like 25% of my space left.

boykster:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on May 29, 2007, 12:13:41 pm ---
Home built?

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AFAIK, only Vista PC's can use cablecards.....considering that you can get a rebate on teh new series 3 Tivos for Father's day that brings the price down to ~$400, that would be a cheaper route than building a dedicated homegrown HD DVR....

ChadTower:

It would be cheaper, but still too much for not enough, IMO.  Plus we have DirecTV, which complicates the DVR situation.

Jeff AMN:
Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/2w76h2

Subscription free is what makes it so great. This one is a 500GB model, but according to the description it has "significant scratches or scuffs". I bet it's beat half to hell, but it works.

EDIT: Made the URL shorter to keep from stretching the page.

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