General Premier questions

David Knowles said:

I have a couple of questions about the Premier before I buy...

1. Can I buy the Premier anywhere and still get the MSD from Tivo? Amazon has a good price on the XL...

2. One thing I noticed on all of my previous Tivos - when I transfer something from my PC, you cannot FF or REW from the Tivo - it skips around and it doesn't do it smoothly. Will it work better on the Premier?

3. I have read about the improved transfer capabilities of the Premier. Is this just from Premier to Premier or will it be faster from a series 3 or a PC as well?

Thanks

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1. MSD as in Multi Service Discount, is available where ever you purchase the Tivo.
2. Sorry, I don't know an answer for this one, I haven't seen that behavior.
3. The Premier Elite has a 1GB Ethernet port, the other Premieres and Series 3s have 10/100 ports. All the Premieres have dual core processors. So the Elites will probably be a bit faster then the other Premieres for transfers. But honestly, I think the dual cores help more.

Also, the Premieres can stream shows between each other. No Tivos that aren't Premiers have this can do this. You will probably have to do a software update and it can take a bit after that for the streaming to work.