TiVo HD more than twice as fast as S2SA on TTG?

[lslingo]

I have an HD model and a couple of S2SA units (TCD540...). Transfer speeds of non HD high quality content over Cat5e to a dual proc Vista laptop are drastically different.

On the HD model, a 1 hour show takes about 30 min, give or take, but can be as fast as 25. On the S2SA, the same show takes an hour, sometime 2. I am benchmarking times during off-peak use. They are not recording programming, but are tuned to regular stations.

Are the proc and memory significantly better on the HD than the S2SA? I would expect some improvement, but not this much disparity.

Respectfully,

Lee Lingo

[berkshires]

Yes TiVoHDs are much faster at transfers than Series2s

[lafos]

The 540's are the slowest of the S2's. They took some cost-cutting measures that really affected transfers. The current dual tuner systems are pretty fast, but I never did a direct comparison. The model before the 540 were the 240's, and they had respectable rates.

[westside_guy]

Measured by transferring directly to my computer from the Tivo web interface, my Tivo HD is about 3x as fast as my Series 2 (540) Tivo.

[wmcbrine]

Yes, the TiVo HD is faster than the 540. But it more than makes up for that by offering you much bigger files to transfer. :)