DH Tivo in Stock at Circuit City

[kjnorman]

as of 2:36pm, HD Tivos were in stock at circuit city.com

http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?c=1&b=g&u=c&catoid=-9712&qp=0&oid=93509&m=0

Just thought I would pass that along...


EDIT: I note that it sold out again after about an hour on-line.  Boy these things go fast.... :eek:

[Tom Snyder]

A thousand bucks? Heck you can buy a 50 inch Projection HDTV  for that much!

[Matt Heebner]

I am usually first in line with new groundbreaking technology (HDTV, Dolby Digital 5.1, etc.) but this time I am gonna wait till prices come down first. EVEN though it would be awesome to record HD easily.

Matt

[borghe]

Originally posted by Matt Heebner
EVEN though it would be awesome to record HD easily.

why yes, yes it is...

[easylistener]

I bet the prices will start to drop fast around sept.  The demand will go down and all the compiens TW Dish and Voom will have all theres up and running.  I hope they will try and beat each others deals.

[kjnorman]

As I have always stated that I would not get back into HD until a HD TiVo is out I must admit that I was tempted to buy considering the availability issues this thing has had.  

But, with the channel mapping issue that Borghe discovered the fact that all the network shows (80% of the HD content out there in my opinion) are just hitting their season ends and he fact that this thing is a $1000, I passed on it for now.

Having a wife and a one year old seems to have mellowed my AV spending habit   Plus I must admit that most of my viewing is only on SD channels anyway (Speed and OLN).  

So I will wait - like others - for the supply to ramp up and for hopefully deals to come out near the Fall season start.

Kerry

[kjnorman]

Originally posted by Tom Snyder
A thousand bucks? Heck you can buy a 50 inch Projection HDTV  for that much!

Of course any large screen TV without an ATSC tuner built in is going to be pretty cheap now.

[borghe]

I will be honest.. it is a lot of money... and had I known a few more things, such as the 1-2 month in delays, the fact that delays would push us into reruns, and obviously the bugs relating to Milwaukee in the form of 58 and 10, I would have probably been considerably more hesitant on the box than I was. That being said I wouldn't do anything over again.. Hopefully within a few weeks the bugs will be fixed (I can only imagine they are relatively easy to fix), the delays are now meaningless, and while network TV is now entering reruns pay-tv still has new HD content coming out left and right, and by the time the price drops to any decent amount I will have gotten hundreds of hours of use out of my unit. It can definitely be said that this is still a great time to own an HD DVR.

I am glad that I didn't pre-order two though.. I was strongly considering it for a bit, but am glad I didn't.. I will pick up the second one for the bedroom hopefully by the end of this year if the price drops a significant amount (would like to see $500 but would probably fold even at $600-700).

As for supply outpacing demand, expect that around August most likely... maybe July.. don't get me wrong, you will still be able to get one before that, but it will require you to hunt around and probably order online.. It is sounding like August is when backorders will be filled, production will have been ramped up, and units will at that point be sitting on Best Buy's shelves.. So save up your Reward Zone coupons and take in a 10% customer discount coupon and see if you can maybe get it down to $700-800 that way...