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It’s 12/29 now, so that means you have two days to purchase a Series3 TiVo to qualify for the lifetime VIP transfer. To recap, if you have lifetime TiVo service on ANY box (now both DirecTV TiVos and standalone TiVos) then you can pay TiVo $199 to move the lifetime to a Series3 unit. In [...]

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We first wrote about the new policy allowing lifetime service transfers from DirecTV to Series3 TiVo via the TiVo VIP transfer here.
The word hasn’t spread too well among the TiVo operators, so it seems, but everyone who calls to do the transfer has made it work. If you’re going to try, you might ask your [...]

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It’s Friday afternoon before a long Christmas weekend and I’m certainly ready to go home…but there is enough time for me to report the latest and greatest DIRECTV news, courtesy of AP:
“Under a deal announced Friday, Malone’s Liberty Media Corp. will give its 16.3 percent stake in Murdoch’s company back to News Corp….In exchange, Liberty [...]

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TiVo has been offering its customers who have lifetime service the option to transfer that service to the new HD TiVos for $199. But this offer had been restricted to customers who had lifetime service on their standalone TiVo DVRs only - not those who had it on their DirecTV TiVos.
If you were one of [...]

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We have been proudly writing about the custom Seagate DB35 750GB and 500GB SATA drives that we have been using for our Series3 upgrade kit and Series3 upgraded TiVo DVRs.
Matt Haughey of PVRBlog.com, reviewed our kit and confirmed our claims, “[W]ith the 750Gb drive installed, my TiVo was no louder than the stock Series 3 [...]

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