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HD TiVOs Begin Shipping

It's official, the HD TiVOs have finally begun shipping. They're going to be priced at around a thousand bucks for now, but expect a new customer special in the next few months that should make it cheaper (I'm going to guess $399 or $499 with a year contract).

The demand for these units is through the roof. I know at least three friends with existing pre-orders and I have no idea if the current shipments will meet even the pre-order demand. Yesterday I heard that BestBuy put their first shipment of 200 units up on their website and sold out of them within a few hours.

Early reviews are already being posted to the TiVo Community forums, and they're already uncovering a whole range of problems with signal conversion. I'm a technogeek and I love gadgets, but I gotta admit HDTV can be insanely complicated with the different formats and up-conversion on both a TV and a HDTivo.

DirecTV has promised me a review unit soon, though I don't have a HDTV monitor yet and am debating buying a 30" tube set while I wait a year or two for LCDs to come down in price (I'm also open to review any HDTV sets here, if any company would like to offer that for me).

by Matt Haughey April 24, 2004 in News

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