TiVo is Totally Tubular

There’s a new passion and addiction in my life, and its name is TiVo. I’ve finally succumbed and got a TiVo box after much deliberation. To future proof this buy as much as possible, I went with the TiVo HD, running the Series3 operating system. The HD unit has dual tuners and can handle CableCards for digital television and is HD ready.

So far, there are no regrets. Well, maybe the cost, but still our new TiVo has delivered and has made television life much simpler. I sprung for the lifetime subscription since the monthly service fee just bugged the heck out of me.

Now I have season passes set up to record all episodes of Top Chef, Grey’s Anatomy, Battlestar Galactica, Dancing with the Stars, and a bunch of kids shows. Having a cache of Wonder Pets or Little Einsteins is priceless when you need the kids distracted for a few minutes. The HD unit at medium/high resolution can record about 40-70 hours worth of shows. It’s also expandable with the addition of an external eSATA drive.

I’ve also been a user of Roxio’s Toast software for the Mac for some time and with versions 8 and 9, Toast includes TiVo software to transfer shows to your Mac (the Windows TiVo Desktop software is free?!?). With that, you can transfer shows to an iPod for on-the-go watching (Wonder Pets while flying the friendly skies!). You can also edit the videos more easily and post them to YouTube for viewers hungry for “mango.”

TiVo is simply frakkin’ awesome! (Battlestar Galactica starts this week! w00t!)

Do you want to partake of the TiVo passion and addiction? You happen to be in luck! TiVo is celebrating its birthday offering a TiVo HD DVR, a Wi-fi adapter, lifetime service subscription, and a TiVo mascot plush doll for $698.99. This is a limited time offer which is a good overall deal. If you’re interested, contact me and I can forward on the emailed deal.