I am thinking of buying a Tivo Series3 HD (20GB). Is now a good time, or are there any rumors of an impending update?
20GB? That’s way too small for recording HD programs. Are you talking about a used one? Tivo doesn’t sell them anymore and has a newer HD recorder. From what I read on Tivo’s site, you can watch regular channels, and with an adapter/dongle type thing you can also watch the SDV channels (HBO, etc). However you still can’t do PPV or interactive programming.
Personally, I wouldn’t buy a Tivo until tru2way is ready and cable providers support it and Tivo makes a box that uses it. Who knows if that will ever happen though. Hopefully when it does happen everyone will buy a Tivo and Scientific Atlanta will go out of business. Cable really needs competition to make it better.
Sorry, I meant the 180 GB version, which stores up to 20 hours.