Fanless?

wmcbrine · 03-02-2010, 10:00 PM

One thing I haven't seen mentioned -- we saw in the leaked back panel pic that there was no rear fan port. So... was the illustration accurate? Does the fan exhaust on the bottom, or side? Or is there really no fan? I'm intrigued by the prospect of a fanless TiVo, especially for the bedroom.

t1voproof · 03-02-2010, 11:13 PM

The picture shows no fan. I wonder if there is some internal fan?

garys · 03-02-2010, 11:20 PM

If the unit were fanless, when solid state drive (SSD) capacity increases and prices drop enough, it would be a great upgrade to swap the internal drive for an SSD. No fan, solid state drive, totally silent operation. At that point there would be no real reason for Tivo not to release a tiny "Tivo Portable" that you could just unplug from the HDMI and cable and put in your suitcase when you travel.

magnus · 03-02-2010, 11:24 PM

Would a SSD be a good idea in a DVR (that is recording 24/7)?

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Originally Posted by garys

If the unit were fanless, when solid state drive (SSD) capacity increases and prices drop enough, it would be a great upgrade to swap the internal drive for an SSD. No fan, solid state drive, totally silent operation. At that point there would be no real reason for Tivo not to release a tiny "Tivo Portable" that you could just unplug from the HDMI and cable and put in your suitcase when you travel.

jlib · 03-02-2010, 11:54 PM

Right, that would be the worst application for SSD as currently implemented.

wmcbrine · 03-03-2010, 03:39 AM

Apparently the illustration was not accurate in this respect. We have a photo now:

ct1 · 03-03-2010, 07:00 AM

I would prefer the cable card on the front... I don't want to yank the whole box and all my cables out when the cable guy comes over.

Riverdome · 03-03-2010, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ct1

I would prefer the cable card on the front... I don't want to yank the whole box and all my cables out when the cable guy comes over.

Use slightly longer cables?

Scyber · 03-03-2010, 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Riverdome

Use slightly longer cables?

or grow longer arms?

MrMike1876 · 03-03-2010, 08:20 AM

Only One Cable Card port? How is it a dual tuner then?

Aero 1 · 03-03-2010, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by MrMike1876

Only One Cable Card port? How is it a dual tuner then?

you need an M-Card for dual tuners

wmcbrine · 03-03-2010, 02:01 PM

Multi-stream cards are standard now anyway. Single-stream cards aren't made anymore.

Bierboy · 03-03-2010, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by ct1

I would prefer the cable card on the front... I don't want to yank the whole box and all my cables out when the cable guy comes over.

And that's gonna happen.....ummm........ONCE?

Geesh...talk about lazy....

Corran Horn · 03-03-2010, 03:31 PM

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And that's gonna happen.....ummm........ONCE?

Geesh...talk about lazy....

From your lips to God's ears. I had 3 different guys come over to get my S3 up and running, once upon a time.

wierdo · 03-03-2010, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by wmcbrine

Multi-stream cards are standard now anyway. Single-stream cards aren't made anymore.

Yet Cox refused to give me an M-Card as recently as last summer.

tim1724 · 03-03-2010, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Bierboy

And that's gonna happen.....ummm........ONCE?

Geesh...talk about lazy....

No, more like 2 or 3 times before the cable company gives you a card that works, then once more when they decide that they have to change out the card when they go to SDV because for some reason the older cards stop working after you add the SDV Tuning Adapter, then twice more when a bad firmware update kills half the cablecards on the cable company's system...

Trust me, having the cablecard slots on the back is really annoying. (I have an old Series 3, and the sequence of events above really did happen. Because Charter is completely incompetent.)

alarson83 · 03-03-2010, 09:09 PM

I've had my tivo 4 months, and the cable guy out here 4 times with cablecard issues.

gamo62 · 03-04-2010, 01:07 AM

Is it going to support 2-Way or still 1-Way like the HD?

Dan203 · 03-04-2010, 02:43 AM

Just an alternate perspective, but I've have gone through several CableCARD installs all of which went off without a hitch and work perfectly from day one. <shrug>

Dan

lb3 · 03-04-2010, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by wmcbrine

Multi-stream cards are standard now anyway. Single-stream cards aren't made anymore.

That may be true, and my first Tivo has a M-card. However, I bought a 2nd Tivo a month or two ago and the Verizon installer only had 2 S-cards.

i2k · 03-04-2010, 12:47 PM

nice - only 4 screws to get the case open

TerpBE · 03-04-2010, 01:39 PM

I think the title may be a bit of an exaggeration. There are a couple of people who seem to be fans of the Premiere.

Oh, sorry...I misunderstood.

litkaj · 03-04-2010, 02:55 PM

I had a lot of problems with S-Cards failing but none with getting them to work in the first place. For me, the M-Cards have been a LOT more reliable and I don't mind at all having the slot in the back.

I plan on just popping the two M-Cards out of my S3, tossing one in each new box, firing them up, and then never looking at the back again.

NJChris · 03-04-2010, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by litkaj

I had a lot of problems with S-Cards failing but none with getting them to work in the first place. For me, the M-Cards have been a LOT more reliable and I don't mind at all having the slot in the back.

I plan on just popping the two M-Cards out of my S3, tossing one in each new box, firing them up, and then never looking at the back again.

I didnt think you could swap them with other devices.. that they are "married" to the one they are in and would have to be re-configured in the next device.

litkaj · 03-04-2010, 03:21 PM

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I didnt think you could swap them with other devices.. that they are "married" to the one they are in and would have to be re-configured in the next device.

Not with FiOS they aren't.