New HD Tivo Review and new Pictures-production release unit.

[scottchez]

FYI-


One of the dealers got one of the first 200 Units (the ones with the HDMI/DVI port size a little out of spec, that they are now fixing).

Robert from Valueelectronics let a forum member come to His store and give it a test drive.

Over at the Tivo Comun that have details and many new pictures.

Here is the link

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170175&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

[scottchez]

Here are some more pictures from someone that has/had one in Tulsa, Ok

http://www.hdtvok.com/article.php?sid=1625

The HD Tivo is starting to show up all over the place. We must be getting close to the actual main ship date.


The URL is from the Oklahoma HDTV web site.

Thanks

www.hdtvok.com

[mainedish]

Waiting for more HDTV programs and also for the price to drop. But I will take this unit of any Dish Product anytime.

[BFG]

:( it's beautiful. Has widescreen guides, and OTA info, I wish dish could make stuff like this.....

[scottchez]

Here are some Hi res 2Meg pics found on the Internet

A big thanks to -Maharg18


http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0273.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0274.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0276.JPG

[scottchez]

Internet Search is now also showing pciture links

Here are some more from Maharg18's web site.


http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0267.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0268.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0269.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0270.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0271.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0272.JPG

[dfergie]

Internet Search is now also showing pciture links

Here are some more from Maharg18's web site.


http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0267.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0268.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0269.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0270.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0271.JPG
http://home.comcast.net/~maharg18/IMG_0272.JPG
saw these earlier...myself instead of taking pictures I would be playing with it :D

[Danny R]

Good news... looks like the HD Tivo will be upgradable (hackable) with a larger 2nd hard drive. (voids warranty)! They are still having trouble upgrading the primary hard drive to >250, but they've successfully added a second drive, bumping up the HD storage to the much better 70 hours.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171445

With 400 GB drives now available, I'd love to see two of them installed.

[DBSPaul]

Rats! And here I bought a DVD recorder to more frequently archive shows off my HDTiVo for nothing.. :sure:

It doesn't really surprise me much that the standard MFS tools would work with this unit. The issue will be getting a mounting bracket and cooling solution for the second drive. But like all my other *TiVos in the house, it looks like the newest will also have a drive upgrade at some point in the future... :)