R10 replacement

[keeferb]

We have an R10 that reboots itself periodically and my wife is almost at the end of her patience with it. It is a refurb unit that we've had for about 6 months...I'm guessing that's why it's a refurb unit to begin with. If I call to get a replacement, can we get another R10(which I'd prefer) or are they replacing these with something else now?

Thanks.

[Stuart Sweet]

If you call them, you'll get an R15 which is not a Tivo. It's had its share of issues, read for yourself in the R15 forum. I don't own one so I'm not a good one to ask. If you're looking for another DirecTivo, eBay or other sites like that, or weaknees.com might be good choices.

[keeferb]

We already have one R15. Although it's been fairly stable(knock on wood), I still like the R10. I'll check online and see what I can find.

Thanks for the info.

[DFDureiko]

Strange, shortly after DirecTiVo's were discontinued, prices shot up for both R10 and HR10, on both eBay and Weaknees. The price is still 1199.00 for a 30hr HR10 at weakknees! but the price on the R10's has dropped like a stone? HR10's are now about 500.00 on eBay. I wonder why this one is staying so high and the R10 is not?
at any rate. I bought a new in box leftover R10 at CompUSA used it about 4 months before we got an HR20 for the house, paid 175.00 for it. We finally got HDTV and the HR20, so it's hardly used.
Meanwhile, we bought a NIB HR10250 for our RV on eBay for 375, just before the price went crazy.
At any rate the R10 is all together in a box if someone would like to make me an offer on it. We thought we'd at least get what we paid for it, they are 199.00 at weakknees, but I don't think they are R10's............
I'll even include shipping as I get an Airline employee discount at FedEx
Dan
North Franklin, CT

[tds4182]

We already have one R15. Although it's been fairly stable(knock on wood), I still like the R10. I'll check online and see what I can find.

Thanks for the info.

Did you read the PM that I sent you?

[snickerrrrs]

We have an R10 that reboots itself periodically and my wife is almost at the end of her patience with it. It is a refurb unit that we've had for about 6 months...I'm guessing that's why it's a refurb unit to begin with. If I call to get a replacement, can we get another R10(which I'd prefer) or are they replacing these with something else now?

Thanks.

Buy a new hard drive and save yourself a LOT of headaches with the R15 (you think you wife is upset now, wait until you have an R15, you may end up divorced) :lol: . This is a good time to upgrade the hard drive to a larger one if you like. Go to dvrupgrade.com or weaknees.com and buy a big hard drive and replace the existing one. The new drive will come with detailed installation instructions, so if you can work a torx wrench you can replace a hard drive.