Samsung's new TiVo

Samsung has announced a new 100 hour DirecTiVo reciever with dual tuners. About the only innovation is the shipping hard drive size, being the largest offered directly from a manufacturer, and much larger than the standard DireTiVo 35 hour size on competing units.

The announcement features speculation about future HDTV capable versions and they even hint at throwing a home networking ethernet router/firewall into it, and of course a Samsung spokesperson dodges the obvious question of why it doesn't come with a DVD recorder by saying:

With a 100 hour capacity disk do you really need an external recording device...There is enough room on the hard drive to store some programs.

Sure, some programs could fit on a 100 hour device, but they won't last forever and you can't archive them outside of the box, so of course people really do need an external recording device. [announcement link via Gizmodo]

Comments

[Ruidh]

My Next TiVo Will Be HDTV

I've got the widescreen and I want to use it. Cable/DirectTV HDTV offerings are pretty limited especially if you don't care for sports. I'm going to have to get OTA working.

[Matt Haughey]

I've heard TiVo announce they are working on HDTV versions, but I have to wonder what kind of storage space they will need. According to this report, it appears that recording will take up about ten times the storage (43Gb for five hours of recording instead of most TiVo's 1hr ~ 1Gb).

Now that there are 250Gb and 300Gb hard drives available from Maxtor, I assume an HDTV recorder would need to ship with around 500Gb of storage to be much use.

[veen]

No DVD burner... That's too bad. I've been wanting to move stuff from my Tivo to disc for watching on my laptop. At the moment, the only way I've been able to do this is by dumping video to a DV camcorder, then firewireing to my Mac. Or buying a S-Video to Firewire box for $350.

Any other ideas?

[Corrin]

You can get the data off TiVo via the ethernet connection. However, you won't be able to _watch_ it off the TiVo, just back it up. Later you can copy it back (of course). Your solution is probably better, but this is an alternative :-)

[neftali acevedo]

I had two samsung dvrs and both of them had to be replaced.the hard drive went on both of them

[Todd Lokken]

I've never had a problem with RCAs...seem to work great. Todd Lokken.

[denise]

can i move the video from the tivo to the computer with the ethernet cable

[Todd Lokken]

I have switched over to the directv box, and I can't say I'm a fan.

Todd Lokken

[george jacob]

dear sirs,
do you have satellite dvrs for pay channals.if you have please send a reply.

[Aubie]

Dear sir/Mam, I have Directv satalite. I have had a Tivo for a long time now. I love it. I ordered another one last month and they pawned a DVR on me. They said it did the same thing, NO WAY. They said after I complained from day of instalation they no longer handle Tivo brand. Fine time to tell me.Mine is a Samsung brand. Can you get me another one or what can I do to get one? I live in the 76063 zip code.

Thanks

[Ken]

Why do some companies tell me they carry a Tivo, Dvr? Just a Dvr will not do the same as a Tivo. I am trying to locate a Tivo like those Directv did carry but they no longer carry Samsung brand. In fact they only carry a Dvr which I do not like at all. I have been unable to find one like I have.

[Stan]

the samsung tivo does not have sansui listed amongst the tv codes. I have a sansui tv and I cannot program my remote to control my tv. does anyone have any ideas how i can get my remote to work?

[Todd Lokken]

Stan...try fixya.com and see if they can help. I'm still not a fan of the direct TV dvr. The tivo is much better than this fraud.