TiVo launched a new rebate on January 27th. This rebate is not exactly new, but extends some prior rebates and cuts back on another. Best of all (for us at least), is that the rebates are now consolidated into one form and some confusion in the language of prior rebate has been clarified. Here’s the deal:

1) $200 rebate on Series3 Home Theater TiVo DVRs (NOT the TiVo HD) continues through April 5th.
2) $150 rebate on dual-tuner standalone, standard definition units continues through April 5th.
3) $150 rebate on single-tuner Humax DVD TiVo units continues through April 5th. (The $49 net price on 40GB Humax boxes lives!)
4) The prior $170 rebate on single-tuner standalone, standard definition units dropped down to $150 and this new rebate continues through April 5th.

Here’s the new TiVo Rebate form.

For those interested in minutiae, notice that the prior rebate (like several predecessors) referred to a “$150 TiVo® Series2™ Dual Tuner DVR Rebate [valid only on TiVo Service Numbers (TSN) starting with 264, 275, 565, 590, 595, 649],” but only the 649 unit actually has two tuners. This caused a huge amount of confusion for our customers, because the Humax DVD Recorder IS eligible for a $150 rebate, but has a single tuner.

The new rebate finally fixed this source of confusion.

DirecTV is currently producing the HR21 – the HD DVR (not a TiVo!) that gets their entire current lineup of HD channels. But the HR21 doesn’t get over the air antenna (or OTA) broadcasts. The predecessor to the HR21 – the HR20 – does. And we now have them in stock.

OTA broadcasts are very important. Local stations broadcast HD in very high quality in almost every part of the country. They also generally broadcast more than one sub-channel. So for the highest quality and best variety you should include OTA channels in your lineup.

DirecTV dropped OTA support in the HR21, but since the HR20 had it, we’ve done everything we can to get our hands on more HR20s, and we’ve got them, both stock and upgraded. They’re at the bottom of our DirecTV HD DVR page.