High Definiton Tivo

[orangehenry]

I am sorry if this is a really bad question but i'm new. I have a hard-drive recorder at the moment. And honestly it sucks - the picture quality is bad because i can't do timed recordings with my HD box, the machine is sluggish and sometimes doesn't record properly. Then i found this sight and thought i had found salvation. But i am worried that if I buy a Tivo, like the ones mentioned on OZTivo.net there will be no improvement in picture quality. Then i recently saw some HD-Tivo's on CNet.com. My question is: If i imported one of these and made it PAL compatible then would it work? TV Guide, every channel and all?

Thank You,
Orangeehnry

[Darren King]

In one word: No.

You can use a Series 1 TiVo in Australia in PAL mode and that is it.

[zollymonsta]

Also, I don't think any broadcasters over this side of the world are broadcasting in high def anyway, so there would be no point doing it even if you could get a high def tivo working.

ZollyMonsta

[Darren King]

It's rather funny here in Australia because we have a mix of some that don't, some that do (sometimes) and some that claim they do but really don't apart from a poor attempt to upscale it!

[zollymonsta]

No doubt some of them then are playing on the fact that the average joe bloggs home customer isn't totally up on the play. The thing they don't realise is more and more domestic customers are becoming aware of these technical standards of delivery.

[orangehenry]

No doubt some of them then are playing on the fact that the average joe bloggs home customer isn't totally up on the play. The thing they don't realise is more and more domestic customers are becoming aware of these technical standards of delivery.

Why are you not able to use a series 2 Tivo in Australia? And if you cant then what is the advantage of a tivo over say a HDD recorder?