{"id":10,"date":"2005-12-29T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2008-04-30T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:16:08","slug":"saga-of-the-new-tivo-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/saga-of-the-new-tivo-part-i","title":{"rendered":"Saga of the New Tivo, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October I decided that a really good gift for Tina’s birthday would be a DirecTV<\/a> Tivo (DTivo). As you may know from previous posts<\/a>, we already have a DTivo in our living room that we love. We had a plain old DirecTV (DTV) receiver in the bedroom, but Tina was frequently heard to say, “I wish I had Tivo in the bedroom!” I should note here that Tina spends a lot of time in our bedroom because her craft center is in there as well as her computer.<\/p>\n

I briefly considered buying a standalone Tivo with a built-in DVD recorder because Tina also longs for a DVD player in the bedroom. However, standalone Tivos have to work with an existing satellite receiver and will only record a single channel. Ultimately, I decided that the most user friendly solution would be to get another DTivo which doesn’t require an additional receiver and<\/strong> lets you record two channels simultaneously.<\/p>\n

After surfing the web and absorbing the state of the Tivo market for a few days, I decided that I would return to my favorite Tivo upgrader, Weaknees<\/a>. Weaknees specializes in kits that let you trick out your Tivo in a variety of ways. Last year I purchased a hard drive upgrade kit that I used to increase our Tivo’s capacity from 35 hours to 105 hours.<\/p>\n

Weaknees is currently offering DTivo units that have had hard drive upgrades for the same cost as a non-upgraded unit from DTV. I eventually settled on the 80 hour unit and had it shipped a week before Tina’s birthday. It arrived a couple of days before and I had to give Tina some lame explanation about what it was. I planned to install it on her birthday and have it ready for her that day as a “surprise.”<\/p>\n

Next<\/a>: “Well, it started out that easy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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