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Tivo Mega

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Post by cwinfield » Mon Sep 08, 2014 2:11 pm

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/tivo-mega-24tb-dvr/

Anybody have any thoughts about this? IMO anybody that has half a brain will not buy this.

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Post by STC » Mon Sep 08, 2014 2:26 pm

^ :)

166.7 days of HD. I'm sure my wife could fill that with @#$% in no time. I might need three.
Edit: It would take her just under a calendar month to fill the thing with six tuners and no padding. Easy...

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Post by kd6icz » Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:10 pm

Sorry STC. It wasn't in News like it should have been. You can just delete mine.

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Post by STC » Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:32 pm

All good! :thumbup:
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Post by mike_ekim » Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:27 pm

If I had money to burn, I'd get two. And a giraffe.

But seriously, there are advantages to 'it just works' products. The TiVo ticks off a lot of boxes for what I want, I use MCE because the total cost is lower.

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Post by blueiedgod » Tue Sep 09, 2014 2:06 am

Ours "whole house DVR" has 30 TB and did not cost $5,000.

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Post by oakley516 » Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:46 pm

All that storage space and still only six tuners?

No ability to expand the number of tuners either. Seems short sighted.

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Post by STC » Tue Sep 09, 2014 11:53 pm

^ Well it would only require 1xCableCard as it stands I suppose...
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