Series 3 TiVo at Circuit City, available in October
Someone in the comments (from Circuit City) said the Series 3 boxes are just hitting warehouses this week, while Dave Zatz showed a screenshot from Circuit City's site.
I continued poking around the Circuit City site and found their shopping catalog has a page with the Series 3 marked with "Available in October". Screenshot:
Hopefully they'll be a bit early so I can enjoy the new fall shows on it, but October as a fallback works too.
so the tivocommunity.com forums are convinced that best buy gets a two week exclusive to the S3, which would explain why Circuit City has to wait until october. And someone at HDBeat got BB to take a pre-order, with delivery on 9/17.
http://www.hdbeat.com/2006/09/11/best-buy-is-taking-pre-orders-for-the-series-3-pick-up-date-9-1/
Posted by: ryan schroeder | September 11, 2006 at 02:53 PM
Thanks for the tip Ryan.
I called my local BestBuy, gave them the SKU, and they said it'd be a week or two before they got one, and from the looks of it they were only going to get 2 in stock during the first wave of orders.
Posted by: Matt Haughey | September 11, 2006 at 04:20 PM
Perhaps you know this already, but the TiVo website has them for sale as well:
http://www.tivo.com/2.0.boxdetails.asp?box=series3HDDVR
Posted by: David | September 12, 2006 at 07:43 AM
Available now. http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/TiVo-Series3-HD-Digital-Media-Recorder-TCD648250B/sem/rpsm/oid/159824/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
Posted by: Lance | September 12, 2006 at 02:58 PM
Be aware that if you want to transfer a lifetime subscription, you'll need to purchase your series 3 direct from Tivo.
http://www.tivo.com/2.0.3hdDvr.plt.asp
(hopefully this link works for everyone)
Posted by: DaveG | September 12, 2006 at 09:13 PM
For the lifetime transfer and to buy a Series3 go to www.tivo.com/vip
Posted by: Leo | September 13, 2006 at 07:33 AM