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At weaKnees, we’ve been getting endless questions about the new DIRECTV DVR Plus - the R15, and asking us to compare it to the TiVo-based DIRECTV DVR R10. The question generally boils down to: Which is better? In an attempt to give you the information necessary to answer that question yourself, we’ve written up a [...]

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Engadget has posted a note about another update to the software in the R15. While this is interesting in itself, what we find more interesting is that the comments below pretty well echo what we’ve experienced and been hearing from our customers: the R15 falls pretty short of the R10.
We’re also working on a comprehensive [...]

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Pretty big news on the hard drive front today: Seagate is buying Maxtor. The bulk of the drives we sell are made by one of these two companies. So this could either mean increased innovation in the drive world, or increased prices due to less competition. Or even both.
Maxtor had most of the early business [...]

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We don’t exactly have a huge amount of stock of 500 GB drives, but we have enough that we’re able to ship orders for the 130 hour HR10-250s and a few kits. Each day we get another shipment of the 500s and we’re keeping up with demand. So we’ve added kits based on these for [...]

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Beginning today, WeaKnees is shipping the Terabyte TiVo - a TiVo DVR with dual 500 GB hard drives for a total of one terabyte of capacity. This unit can record 130 hours of HD content, 870 hours of SD content, or some of each. The units are here. For now, due to the number of [...]

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