Back in January of this year, TiVo announced their plans to discontinue the Series 3 DVR. While not surprised by this news, I was kind of left wondering how TiVo was going to accommodate for some of the features that the Series 3 has to offer.
Well, just today TiVo announced a new DVR called the TiVo HD XL. As expected, this DVR includes many of the features that were included in the Series 3 as well as a couple of new enhancements. To set it apart from the “regular” TiVo HD, the XL includes a 1TB harddrive which is capable of recording 150 hours of HD content! Just like the Series 3, the XL also includes a glo-remote as well as THX certification.
Like the Series 3, the DVR costs a considerable amount more than the “basic” TiVo HD. At the time of this writing, you can pickup the new DVR for $599.99 from either Amazon.com or directly from TiVo’s very own website.
Let me know if you end up getting the XL. I’d love to hear what you think about this new DVR. In the mean time, you might want to head on over to Dave Zatz’s website so that you can check out some of the pictures he has taken. I found it especially interesting how the internals of the XL resemble the internals of the “regular” TiVo HD.
Thanks for the update…and Please put dates on your blog posts!!! It’s very annoying having to decipher the URL to figure out that the date on this post was on 9/4/2008.