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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Mike,
Problem with recording HD is that it takes MASSIVE amounts of hard drive space. Then couple that with the fact that the hard drives in the Tivo units are not normal computer style hard drives, but very fast access time versions, and you are looking at a lot of money very fast.
The hard drive in our computers is pretty generic, with millions of them being made every day. Not as many made of the Tivo style video drive, so price per unit is higher, as well as the size driving the price up as well.
Look on your Tivo and see how much it soaks up room by recording in the best quality, then imagine multiplying it several times for HD.
It all adds up to mean that if you want to record HD, you are going to pay. Right now that is. Look at how memory and hard drive prices have fallen. It will come down but not soon...
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