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Originally Posted by JayAy
So VM happily state "Our new TiVo® box will be HD and 3D ready, allowing you to get closer to the action". Followed immediately by "It's got a massive 1TB of personal storage – that means you can save up to 500 hours of your favourite programmes"
I think they may be pulling a "marketing fast one" here. By not sating all the facts, they would like you to believe that you can store 500 hours of HD or 3D content on a 1TB HDD - clearly there is some amazing magic in the VM version of the Tivo system to achieve this. 
Tivo's own information states 150 hours of HD or 1350 SD on a 1TB disc.
Where lies the truth I wonder?
Can I be first to say "Can I put a larger HDD in my VM Tivo box"? |
Well based on the current 160Gb V+ being able to store 80 hours SD or 20 hours HD, then a Terrabyte box would be able to store 500 hours SD or 125 hours HD. There's no reason to expect the TIVO box to have any effect on the amount that can be stored, as the data streams being recorded will still be the same size. The US figures may be based on MPEG4 at a guess?