Tivo Community

* Order onilne and pickup in store (because they are running out)
* Price is $99 with a mail-in $50 rebate.
* Read the last page (8) for a link to the $50 rebate.
* Good for new and existing DirecTV subscribors.
* Only includes the Tivo/receiver, no dish included.

Damn you foul temptress! =]

Question... if i get this puppy, does the DirecTV package include the Tivo fees? or is all the scheduling done through DirecTV?

Oh, and how hackable are these?

(Move this puppy to off topic so it gets more views! =])

DIRECTV® DVR with TiVo service®

The monthly cost of the DIRECTV DVR with TiVo service varies depending on which programming package you have.

The fee for DIRECTV DVR with Tivo service is $4.99 per month.

If you subscribe to the TOTAL CHOICE® PREMIER package, the DIRECTV DVR with TiVo service is FREE of charge, as long as you keep your TOTAL CHOICE PREMIER subscription. If you downgrade to a package other than TOTAL CHOICE PREMIER, a $4.99 monthly fee will apply.*

The charges for both DIRECTV® programming and DIRECTV DVR with Tivo service are conveniently combined onto one bill from DIRECTV.

These prices apply to customers with the DIRECTV® DVR and DIRECTV® DVR with TiVo® service only. Customers with stand alone TiVo Digital Video Recorders will continue to pay their service fees to TiVo in accordance with their agreement with TiVo.

*In areas served by members or affiliates of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, TOTAL CHOICE PREMIER customers may have a fee for the DIRECTV DVR with Tivo service, and may receive separate bills from DIRECTV and their NRTC members or affiliates for service.

Pricing, terms and conditions subject to change. All equipment, services and programming are sold separately.

http://www.directtv.com/DTVAPP/imagine/TIVOPricing.dsp

Drive upgrade kits are available on 9th Tee. Or you could buy everything separately.

Thanks guys. So no Turbonet eh.

Don't need it with USB being there. The Pegasus driver is there, so anything with that chipset will work right out of the box. Of course, you can compile your own drivers if you want/need to. Good place to start is here. There's a list of the USB Ethernet adapters that use the Pegasus chipset there too.

Nice. Thanks man.

I forgot to mention that the rebate ends on Oct. 4th.

In short, you pay a flat $5 fee to DirecTV for the addition of TIVO service (compared to $12 for a standalone "non-DirecTV" TIVO). Better yet, you can have upto 8 TIVO's in your house for that $5 fee!

Granted, each reciever you add requires a $5 "mirroring" fee, but that is the same for non-Tivo boxes...

I don't feel I'm explaining this clearly, so here is an example:

My main entertainment room has DirecTV for which I pay $29 a month. To enable the TIVO, I pay an additional $5.

I added another DirecTV box with builtin TIVO to my bedroom. For $5, I get all of the programing that my main room gets, including the TIVO services.

I could keep adding DirecTIVO's to my house for $5 each.

One thing about these that makes them better than standalone TIVO's is that they record the MPEG2 stream straight from your dish - there is no additional compression. The quality is much better because of this and the boxes are cheaper to produce because they don't require an mpeg encoder.

Another thing that makes DirecTIVO's better than standalone Tivo's is that you can record 2 programs at once while watching a 3rd program that was recorded previously! It has two dish inputs and can use both of them at the same time. I can't believe the drive is fast enough to record 2 shows and playback a 3rd from memory, but it works!

HACKING:
I've added a 120GB drive to my brother-in-law's DirecTIVO box. He is running a hacked card on it and a "free tivo service" hack as well. The hacked card is stupid though because it goes out every week. Mine is "stock" now because buying another box for $50 was cheaper than adding a drive and I don't feel like going to jail for stealing satellite.

No problem. It was too good to pass up, so I picked one up today too.

Another thing that makes DirecTIVO's better than standalone Tivo's is that you can record 2 programs at once while watching a 3rd program that was recorded previously! It has two dish inputs and can use both of them at the same time. I can't believe the drive is fast enough to record 2 shows and playback a 3rd from memory, but it works!

I wish I could get direct tv

Just start chopping down trees!

Today is the last day.

Welp, i finally decided to go pick one up today, and of course, every store within a reasonable distance is out. Early bird ... worm.... feh.

I'm on the north side of my apartment building. Maybe I could cut a hole in the building