 "Craig" | 2008-10-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A30CJMKYVEIYZK |
| What can I say. This is my second TiVo HD. It is the only way to watch HD TV, and now I can watch a program on one TiVo that was recorded on the other. I highly recommend. |
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| "Would buy another" | 2008-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2X5IQ7AO98SYI |
| I'm a long time TiVo user and I wanted this new HD TiVo for the following reasonsbr /* To get rid of my cable set top box, it was hot, only allowed me to record one digital channel at a time and required IR switchingbr /* To be able to view HD programming on my standard definition TV.br /br /The HD Tivo does both of these things. The cable company muttered about having to install a cable card but they did it and it went smoothly and quickly. I can now record two of any channel at a time and view the programing on my TV. It also gave me a digital audio out which provides surround sound on programs that are broadcast with it. |
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| "Even better than previous versions" | 2008-09-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2Y8Y27G6H8Y3H |
| I just upgraded from a Series 2 Tivo. Cablecard installation by Comcast was easy. There were no problems scheduling the installation, or with installation itself. It's great not to need a cable box. You can't beat this Tivo, especially knowing that an external hard drive is available to expand recording capacity as more HD programming becomes available. |
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| "Couldn't live without it..." | 2008-09-27 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1N67BI472IMKW |
| We have two of these and couldn't go back to watching "live" TV, nor standard def programming. You can program the remote to do a 30 second skip and pop right by commercials. Watch what you want, when you want. Stop and finish it later if you want. The only negative is the small hard drive doesn't allow much saved HD content. I fixed that by inserting 1 TB drives in each. They have worked flawlessly! |
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 "Waste of money" | 2008-09-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A14TVBOJQR0VVA |
| I purchased my TIVo HD box via amazon in may. I am not on my 2nd HD box and 3rd set of cable cards and still have major issues with the box. If you purchase this box be aware that you may be one of the lucky ones that get to expereince the ungoing problem of partial recordings. Tivo is fully aware of the problem and is working on it, with no success. If you don't like watching all of your show, if you are ok with 5 minutes out of 60 of a drama, don't want to know if you your football team wins a game, and love to see a description of the show you missed, they by all means purchase this box. The great TIVo services are there from previous generations such as season passes, the abillity to use wishlist searches, and the flexibility to schedule recordings online, but coupled with unreliable recordings, unknowledgable customer services, and TIVo's inability to fix a chronic problem it's not worth spending a penny on. Switch to anoter DVR recorder or stay in the dark ages and watch non HD TV. |
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| "The way TV was intended to be watched" | 2008-09-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A10FF6B29PSB28 |
| I've been a TiVo customer for over 6 years. When I bought a new LCD TV, I decided to make the jump to a TiVo HD. I have not been disappointed.br /br /1) Everything you love about TiVo is still there are much more.br /From Season Passes, WishLists, TiVoToGo, web-based scheduling through TiVo.com, etc. The basic features are all fully functional.br /br /2) Versatile for HD, whether you go through your cable company or OTAbr /I have an antenna for OTA digital broadcasts and use basic analog cable for a couple of other cable channels and to have back-up broadcasts of my network TV in case bad weather knocks OTA off the air. With dual tuners, TiVo can easily record two HD programs off my antenna without any problems. The device internally splits the signal, so you don't need any fancy splitters or extra equipment coming from your antenna or mast. I haven't tried Cablecards, but if I do move and decide to use digital cable, it has the versatility to work well with cable as well. With the increased use of SDV, there will be a solution for that as well in the near future.br /br /3) Product lifetime is back!br /As of right now, you can get lifetime subscriptions on your new TiVo purchases. If you're an existing customer, this cost is reduced by 25%!br /br /4)The real advantage of this product: the true TiVo experiencebr /If you think your cable DVR is a "TiVo", don't be mislead. Cable DVRs are a shoddy imitation and lack a lot of the features that really revolutionized TV. With TiVo, you pick the Season Passes you want, prioritize them, and forget about it. Everything is recorded for you and you can watch your programs on demand anytime you want. If you like a specific type of program (or say, movies by Hitchcock), just fashion up a Wishlist and your TiVo will record every program that fits your description. Bored and want to watch something you didn't plan to record? Check out the TiVo Suggestions and browse through 10s to 100s of shows (depending on your hard drive space) of shows that TiVo intelligently thinks you'll like! Want to watch a show on an airplane? Download it (even HD programming!) to your laptop and watch it on the go! TiVoToGo also supports portable devices like iPod/iPhone and Zune. The list goes on and on.br /br /Anyway, this device is worth every penny! |
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| "TiVo HD Recorder" | 2008-09-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3GTAH44UMVY7J |
| My new TiVo works great! I just tell it what I like and it finds the shows. If two shows are already recording and I can't record a third show, it lets me know, so I can look for shows that air on multiple channels. By placing them lower on the priority list, I can efectively record three shows, as TiVo will look for other channels to record from.br /br /Now I just need th ebox to last three years, to make it worth getting the lifetime service... (A family member has had one for several years, so it shouldn't be a problem) |
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| "Still the best dvr ever..... and getting better!!!!" | 2008-09-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2KABJH6J4UGIJ |
Other dvr's don't come close to the services and functionality of a TIVO!! Multi-room viewing, Tivo-to-go (send shows to your PC and stream music and pictures to you TV) and more!!!
Simply the best out there! |
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| "You can't go wrong with TiVo" | 2008-09-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3P78320EVVW8S |
| What is there to say? If you love TiVo, you will LOVE TiVo HD. My parents had TiVo and switched to a DVR without the TiVo service when they moved...it is so hard to use, it is not user friendly. TiVo is just intuitive. You can turn it on and figure it out without instructions. |
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 "Great DVR, long download times" | 2008-09-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A113ECLKC0BLUZ |
We've been TIVO customers with Series 2 DVRs for a few years. We also had Charter cable box DVRs. The features of TIVO are way better than the charter boxes. In particular the swivel search, season passes, extra time on live events, and transferring recordings between DVRs.
We switch to Series 3 DVRs and got rid of our cable boxes. The Series 3 takes cable cards so we get all of our digital/HD content from the cable company through only the TIVO with cable cards installed. The installation was a pain (3 visits). This was entirely ignorance on the part of the Charter technicians, the TIVO instructions and setup was excellent. When a technician who knew what he was doing finally showed up with all the right cards installation was very smooth.
A few surprises:
- content coming in on Cable Digital channels can not be copied between Tivos.
We have about 100 channels that are part of the basic package, and then about 100 that are "digital" and encrypted in a separate package. When these are recorded the Tivo says something like "Copyright owner prohibits copying this material" and it must be watched on the original TIVO. I'm hoping that when we go all digital next year this doesn't happen to all channels...
- Amazon UnBox has been disappointing, long downloads, poor selection.
We gave up "On-Demand" from Charter when we got the Tivos because cable cards don't support it. We figured "OK, we'll just use use Amazon UnBox. It is a big company and probably has a great selection.
A movie takes about as long to download as it takes to watch (typically about 2 hours). This is really unacceptable. you sit down to decide to watch a movie and want to just stream and watch, not sit around and wait for a download. you can start watching immediately, but end up having to wait for content to download during watching if viewing speed exceeds download speed. (FYI, I have the TIVO on a 100Mb wired-LAN and have a 10Mb download capacity through my cable model, this is NOT an internal network issue at my house as Tivo has tried to claim)
We've been disappointed at the video selection as well. It took us 4 tries to name a movie they had that we want to watch.
All-in-all an excellent DVR for watching/recording TV, movies, sports, but the Amazon stuff is bogus. |
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