While the date is still an expectation and not a guarantee, we think it’s accurate. So if you’ve been holding off on ordering a new THR22 DirecTV TiVo because you didn’t know when we’d have them, now is the time to order!

We do still have a long list of people in line for these units, but we think we’ll get a pretty good allocation, and that should cover all we have on back-order, plus any orders between now and the 30th.

Finally!

This one was pretty amazing. The box was more than half empty, and yet, the box wasn’t crushed.

When I opened it, I assumed that the “cushioning material” was a big air bubble that had collapsed during shipping, but no, it was the package from the one layer of bubble wrap surrounding the TiVo.

Good thing this didn’t go via USPS – they would have absolutely destroyed it.

OK, sure, you can make a TiVo as dirty as you want.

But as far as a working TiVo innocently plucked from it’s installed environment, we’re pretty sure this is the worst we’ve seen.

Amazingly, it seems untouched by any type of airflow whatsoever.

You should have seen the clouds when we blew this one out . . .

This customer was really considerate when he sent in his unit. He clearly didn’t have enough peanuts, so he re-used some recyclable material for the remainder of the padding.

Feel free to leave some full ones in there when you’re packing up your TiVo for a WeaKnees repair.

I just had to post this – it’s amazing was the salt air can do to a TiVo.

And yet, it still boots!