And beat me by five months too! I’ll have to get that HDTivo sometime! But new house and computer and maybe car will call come first. Darn Marcus! Well, at least it is broken. :-)
HD Tivo becoming unusable over the last few days
(Marcus Alzona, TivoCommunity)
Over the past few days, my HD Tivo (unmodified, working fine for 5 months) has becoming unusable. Its the same occasional problem I used to have with an SD DirecTivo or an SA Tivo – sometimes, you’d press something on the remote, and it either wouldn’t respond, or respond in a few minutes to all your presses (not a remote issue – you’d see one of the Tivo’s LEDs flicker as it receives the command). The problem would go away on its own most of the time, and a reboot would always fix this problem.
Oh, and hi to Marcus and congratulations on the new baby. :-)
Mine is currently on backorder, expected shipment date is on the 9th.
I’d have to be convinced of the need for HD first… and get an HD capable TV as well.
Damn you Ivan! Knew you would do it too! The projector is HD capable although it will downsample a bit at higher res. I’ll upgrade everything before too long, but like I said, a bunch of other things need to come first.
Ivan, are you getting it stock, or with upgraded drives? I want to get it maxed out on drives, of course that almost doubles the price…
It just arrived, like usual I like to keep new stuff stock. So it is stock, 30 hours of HD and 250 hours of standard recording is more than enough for me. It’s plugged in with the HD TV and it looks awesome!!! It’s even better that it the whole setup was a gift!
Judging from the forums they seem to have a really high problem rate, especially after they hit the 3 month mark or so. Let us know how it goes! I *will* eventually get one of these darn it! Just may be awhile.
Things that will come first:
* New House
* New Computer
* New Car
* New GPS
And probably some other things too. But eventually the HDTivo!
So Ivan, how is the HDTivo treating you after a month and a half?