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TiVo TCD648250B Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder | 
| Brand: TiVo
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy Used: $120.00
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Rating:  192 reviews
Sales Rank: 13593
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 18.9
Dimensions (in): 13 x 17 x 3
MPN: TCD648250B
Model: TCD648250B
UPC: 851342000643
EAN: 0851342000643
ASIN: B000I661J0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The world's first THX-certified DVR, delivers the highest-quality home theater AV experience | | • | 300 hour recording capacity, twice as much as most cable alternatives; 25-35 hours of HD | | • | Easily connect to your home network with built-in Ethernet and USB ports | | • | Record 2 live digital cable channels at once, while watching a pre-recorded show | | • | TiVo service subscription required |
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Product Description
Record up to 300 hours of standard recording time or up to 32 in High Definition with this THX-certified digital video recorder that delivers high-quality, high-definition programming and allows you to record up to 2 live shows at once. Schedule recordings anywhere from the tivo website and the advanced TiVo broadband features, including digital photos, Internet radio, podcasts. The backlit programmable remote control is easy to configure to your TV. CableCARD technology to access your HD digital cable channels Supports digital cable, analog cable, and ATSC terrestrial over-the-air digital Full 1080i output over component or HDMI Extremely quiet box Unrivaled Perfection No other box comes close. Get the very-top-of-the-line sound, highest-quality picture, and the Emmy award-winning TiVo service all in one incredible digital cable-ready box. Provides Access to Your Digital Cable Programming Add high-quality entertainment to your home theater without adding clutter. Receive your premium digital cable channels in their full native HD format with CableCARD decoders (available from your cable provider). The TiVo? Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder is also compatible with analog cable and over-the-air digital HD (ATSC). Provides an all-digital connection to your high-end display: HDMI for video, SP/DIF for audio. A True Home Theater Device, THX?-certified It's not home theater without THX?-certification. The TiVo? Series3 HD box maintains all of the sharpness and detail found in the original broadcast-both in sound and picture-so you get the complete high-definition experience as it was intended. TiVo KidZone TiVo is the only DVR that gives you total control over what your kids see on TV. With TiVo KidZone, you get to choose which shows your children can watch and record. TiVo KidZone provides a separate Now Playing list that displays only the shows you pre-approve for you children, keeping their shows separate from yours.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 192
 The reliability issue April 11, 2010
JS (Mountain View, US, Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We got our Series 3 in February of 2007. It has given us over 3 years of flawless service. I won't go into how superior it is to other DVRs; that has been covered. I will just say that Comcast issued us our cable cards with no trouble (!) and this box has delivered trouble-free service ever since. Must re-start every few months when it gets slow. Additionally, The external SATA Western Digital drive we bought at Costco installed easily and has worked without trouble.
I looked at some of the one-star reviews. People are more likely to review when something goes wrong because anger is a great motivator. Obviously, there is a chance you'll get a lemon, but given the preponderance of 5-star reviews, It is well worth the gamble.
A note: the Comcast installer who hooked up our (thankfully temporary) Comcast HD DVR used composite cables and proudly presented us with a standard def. picture. Where do they find these guys? Rather than complain, I just hooked up an HDMI cable after he left.
 I love Tivo January 4, 2010
Joe User (Hartford, CT)
I'd rate this a 5, except my HDMI port died. Evidently this happens quite a bit. I'll have to use component output.
 Think twice June 8, 2009
S. Wainner (USA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The TIVO HD is a piece of junk. It's sluggish, channel changes are slow, and the Internet features work poorly.
What's worse: I bought it, returned it, canceled the Tivo service (if you don't call to cancel they will keep charging you $14/mo!), but they kept charging me even though I haven't owned the hardware for 5 months! I called to cancel again months later and they want to charge me a $150 early termination fee. For what? They gor their hardware back 5 months ago and I'm paying for nothing! Avoid. Go with DirecTV HD DVR!
Unreliable. One unit died after 1.5yrs, another after 9 months. May 12, 2009
Formerly Happy Tivo Customer (Phx., AZ)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Multiple units have proven unreliable. We ordered this product and transferred an old lifetime service (for $150 tranfer fee) to this machine. The hard drive died in about a year and a half. Tivo replaced with a refurb. model (for ~$100 fee) and transferred lifetime service. New unit lasted about 8 months and Tivo now (as of 5/09) charges a $200 "transfer fee" for lifetime service that they will not waive (plus $49 +s/h for the replacement unit), even though the reason for the transfer is a substandard product. Have been very happy and long-term Tivo customer (have 3 other non-Series 3 units in the house) until now, but are switching the Tivo HD DVR to a DVR provided by our cable provider. Tivo sells an unreliable product that breaks down in <2 years and has the audacity to charge the customer additional fees to obtain the same service on the same unreliable product. Disappointing.
A PREVIOUSLY loyal TIVO customer... January 31, 2009
A. D. Ivchenko (NJ, USA)
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
We bought a HD TIVO in November 2008. We have 3 standard definition TIVOs, networked, throughout our home, and LOVE the interface. But I had always wanted one capable of recording in HD. We finally saved up enough money, and....
TIVO HD was nothing but a nightmare from day one. Half of this was due to the cable company and CABLE CARDS. CABLE CARDS ARE A HORRIBLE WAY FOR THE MOVIE/TV INDUSTRY TO "PROTECT" THEIR CONTENT. The CABLEVISION (NJ) tech that came out was cynical about how the card would work, and he was right. 50% of the HD channels simply did not work with the TIVO HD. We returned the useless CABLE CARD, and sent back the TIVO HD unit.
TIVO (the company) was the other half of our problem. Once I had returned the TIVO HD, I forgot about the 1-year service contract. HUGE MISTAKE. Three months later, I remembered to cancel the service. Because it was outside the trial period, THEY COULD NOT REFUND ANYTHING, and they did us a "favor" by not charging us an early cancellation fee. After an hour on the phone, we finally got 41 dollars back. They kept 59 dollars, for nothing.
Every day now I think about cancelling ALL our TIVO service and living with the lousy CABLEVISION DVR. At least I know they're going to screw me...
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