About to buy a TiVo

[KerryC]

That would be fine or you might consider the CacheCard (which George can also arrange - he just doesn't stock them). Here's some links for your own research.

Thanks. I've done a quick scan on those links, and the three problems I see (two very minor, one ??) is:

1. Time, I'll have to wait another week if I buy from George :-)
2. Money, an extra US$30

and the only real problem:

3. It seems you need to put your hard disk in your PC first in order to install the Cachecard drivers - is this true? By the time my TiVo arrives, the only PC I'll have at home will be a Windows XP notebook with an Ethernet connection. It might be a bit difficult to install the hard disk in this :-) (I can, of course, take it all into work and do it there, but I was looking for the quick approach, ie the courier delivers it, and I have the manual read and the system up and running within a hour :-) ).

---EDITED--- Another read of the TiVo FAQs reveals that I have to install the new hard disk in a PC anyway to install the TiVo software, so installing the Cachecard drivers at the same time is a relative no-brainer - so, ignore problem 3.

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I see from your .sig that you have a Cachecard (to speed up the menu access, I gather). So, I guess I should get one anyway, so that I don't find myself in two months time wishing I had got one.

Kerry