In your opinion, what’s a good price point for the new Series3 TiVo that was on display at CES? How much are you willing to pay for a TiVo that has dual-tuners and HD support? I know that I would be willing to pay a lot however, I’m not your average TiVo consumer. A couple of people on TiVoCommunity have suggested that the new DVR will go for something like $500-$800! Is that too much for a DVR when you can get a crappy DVR from your cable company for ~$5.00? Will the average consumer be willing to pay that much? I know I just listed a bunch of open-ended questions however; I’m anxious to find out what other people think about buying a Series3 TiVo and how much they would be willing to pay. Let me know….
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$400 is my sweet spot – I’ll buy two for that amount. I’d buy one unit for up to $600. Over that, and I’ll come up with another plan.
I’d like to spend less then $500 however, I don’t know how realistic that is. Anything over $500 is going to be tough for me not because I wouldn’t spend the money but because I would need to convince the boss (my wife)
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I’d go $500-550, plus lifetime. I bought a Sony DHG-HDD250 for $499, and, while the guide is free, it’s crap (TVGOS). The Sony’s one tuner, and has a lousy UI, but it records cable and OTA HD. I’ll eBay it when I get the Series 3, and that’ll recoup some of the $$ I spend on the TiVo.
For me anything over $350 for a DVR is not worth it. In reality I don’t need to continue using Tivo when my cable companies DVR does the same and has 2 tuners. I keep paying Tivo because its user interface and functionality is unmatched and my series 2 is more than enough. For $500 the series 3 would have to offer a lot more features (web access, streaming audio and video, much faster Tivo to Go functionality) and I would still worry about paying so much to a company that I don’t know if it will be around in a year or two.
My question is what are the chances of the Tivo3 being available through my cable company, Comcast, since they entered a new partnership agreement?
http://www.tivo.com/cms_static/press_34.html
I’m definitely excited about hopefully being able to qualify for a multi-unit discount since I own a TiVo Series2 and a Comcast DVR.
[...] The TiVoBlog asks the question of how much would you pay for a new Series 3 box when they’re available. The range of costs go from $350 – $800. [...]
They can not charge to much. There is to much competition in this area now. You have the Likes of Microsoft MediaCenter, Yahoo’s TV to go coming out, cable companies. I think we are going to see top end models at 299.00. They go much higher then that and they will just shoot their self in the foot. Even at 299 you are not going to get the average joe’s that they need to stay a float.
[...] tivoblog posted up a link to a tivocommunity forum post where someone said they had talked to the people at the tivo booth at ces and the estimated price looks to be between $500 and $800. wow. that’s a lot of cheese. sure it has dual tuner recording (off of 6 available tuners) and cablecard support, but for $500-$800 i sure hope it has a 300-400gb harddrive. [...]
I could do a max of $300, but that’s in a year or two when I get an HD capable TV.
I’d buy one for up to $600US, considering the specs that were mentioned at CES.
My concern would be that my local Canadian cable provider, Rogers, wouldn’t support cable card. It’s not law here like it is in the USA. Still, I’d love more than one tuner and built in ethernet and that backlit remote was sweet.
I paid a bit over $700 for my Pioneer DVR-810H, plus lifetime, so a bit over a grand all told. As an early adopter I paid something like $1700 for my Pioneer DVL-909 – in part because I paid for a unit modded to be region-fee, Macrovision free, etc.
I would be comfortable paying $500 for the Series3, at least when it is new. I would probably still buy one for up to $700 as a new box, but it wouldn’t be an easy choice. More than that, and I’d probably wait – you have to take the cost of lifetime into account too.
I wouldn’t pay much for it. They are 2 years too late and my cable company already has a 2 tuner, HD DVR that works just fine. I still agree that Tivo has a better interface, but that alone doesn’t warrant paying a premium. Sorry Tivo…I think that you missed the boat here.
$1000 is the price point I heard bandied about 6 months ago and that’s the price I’m bracing myself for. When it comes down to time to make the purchase I’m not 100% sure that I won’t chicken out and hold my cash though. That’s a lot of dough. But It’s not out of the question in my mind. Tivo is worth it.
I would not think twice up to $499, after that I would have to do some heavy duty bargain hunting before I get one. But I will get one, 100% sure of that.
I’d probably pay up to around $800 for a Series 3, however, I really hate my cable company here (Charter) so paying that much is going to hurt because it means I’m tying myself to my $100 cable bill for quite a while. I won’t switch to another standalone DVR other than TiVo but with MCE supporting CableCard in the near future, that is temping. I’m hoping they go for around $500.