So Long, TiVo; Hello, Cable-Company Digital Video Recorder
As the friendly Time Warner guys came to install my brand-new Scientific Atlanta 8300HD cable box, I felt wistful that my little daughter wouldn't get to use TiVo's kids-only programming menu, wield the peanut-shaped remote or watch that little antennaed guy bobble down his slide. But then I turned on my new HDTV and my doubts went away.- Click here for FOXNews.com's Personal Technology Center.
TiVo does many things well. But as HD went mainstream, TiVo chose to become irrelevant, pricing its Series 3 box so absurdly high
- $800 - that there's no way you can justify it over the free alternative from your cable company.
Here's the thing: The cable-company box isn't so awful anymore.
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Pricey HDTV Cables
Hoping to buy a cool new flat screen TV in the near future... perhaps with your Tax Refund? Before you start comparing prices, you should know about another surprise cost that could come with that set! Noah Brauer was all set to take home a new Plasma TV, when the salesman said he'd need one more thing."Kinda as an afterthought.....you need cables to hook your TV to your cable, satellite, DVD and it turns out those cables can be pretty expensive," Noah says.
Pretty expensive? Try very expensive. The combination audio and video cable that connects a High Definition TV to your other components - called an HDMI cable - can cost $100 or more!
And since Noah needed a longer length to go through the wall..."They said a 25 foot cable was gonna be upwards of 250, 300 bucks."
Yes, 300 bucks for one wire.
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