Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver
DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 16:52
Tivo Community
* Order onilne and pickup in store (because they are running out)
* Price is $99 with a mail-in $50 rebate.
* Read the last page (8) for a link to the $50 rebate.
* Good for new and existing DirecTV subscribors.
* Only includes the Tivo/receiver, no dish included.
Posted by: loren
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 17:11
Damn you foul temptress! =]
Question... if i get this puppy, does the DirecTV package include the Tivo fees? or is all the scheduling done through DirecTV?
Posted by: loren
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 17:18
Oh, and how hackable are these?
(Move this puppy to off topic so it gets more views! =])
Posted by: ricin
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 17:39
Drive upgrade kits are available on
9th Tee. Or you could buy everything separately.
Posted by: loren
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 17:49
Thanks guys. So no Turbonet eh.
Posted by: ricin
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 18:07
Don't need it with USB being there. The Pegasus driver is there, so anything with that chipset will work right out of the box. Of course, you can compile your own drivers if you want/need to. Good place to start is
here. There's a list of the USB Ethernet adapters that use the Pegasus chipset there too.
Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 18:55
I forgot to mention that the rebate ends on Oct. 4th.
In short, you pay a flat $5 fee to DirecTV for the addition of TIVO service (compared to $12 for a standalone "non-DirecTV" TIVO). Better yet, you can have upto 8 TIVO's in your house for that $5 fee!
Granted, each reciever you add requires a $5 "mirroring" fee, but that is the same for non-Tivo boxes...
I don't feel I'm explaining this clearly, so here is an example:
My main entertainment room has DirecTV for which I pay $29 a month. To enable the TIVO, I pay an additional $5.
I added another DirecTV box with builtin TIVO to my bedroom. For $5, I get all of the programing that my main room gets, including the TIVO services.
I could keep adding DirecTIVO's to my house for $5 each.
One thing about these that makes them better than standalone TIVO's is that they record the MPEG2 stream straight from your dish - there is no additional compression. The quality is much better because of this and the boxes are cheaper to produce because they don't require an mpeg encoder.
Another thing that makes DirecTIVO's better than standalone Tivo's is that you can record 2 programs at once while watching a 3rd program that was recorded previously! It has two dish inputs and can use both of them at the same time. I can't believe the drive is fast enough to record 2 shows and playback a 3rd from memory, but it works!
HACKING:
I've added a 120GB drive to my brother-in-law's DirecTIVO box. He is running a hacked card on it and a "free tivo service" hack as well. The hacked card is stupid though because it goes out every week. Mine is "stock" now because buying another box for $50 was cheaper than adding a drive and I don't feel like going to jail for stealing satellite.
Posted by: ricin
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 01/10/2003 23:01
No problem. It was too good to pass up, so I picked one up today too.
Posted by: msaeger
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 02/10/2003 01:39
Another thing that makes DirecTIVO's better than standalone Tivo's is that you can record 2 programs at once while watching a 3rd program that was recorded previously! It has two dish inputs and can use both of them at the same time. I can't believe the drive is fast enough to record 2 shows and playback a 3rd from memory, but it works!
I wish I could get direct tv
Posted by: SE_Sport_Driver
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 02/10/2003 05:23
Just start chopping down trees!
Posted by: loren
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 04/10/2003 10:02
Welp, i finally decided to go pick one up today, and of course, every store within a reasonable distance is out. Early bird ... worm.... feh.
Posted by: msaeger
Re: DirecTV Divos $49 at Circuit City - 04/10/2003 16:25
I'm on the north side of my apartment building. Maybe I could cut a hole in the building