TiVo Hooks Up with Western Digital

Last week I mentioned TiVo's 9.2 system software update, which gives hoarding DVR owners a sanctioned way to plug in an external hard drive through the eSATA port on the Series3 and TiVo HD boxes. At the time it wasn't clear what TiVo considers to be a "verified" drive, but now we know: There's only one drive, and it's the My DVR Expander from WD (Western Digital). Despite sporting a name meant for two-year-olds, the drive is actually quite beefy, with 500GB of storage that can take up to 300 hours of SD programs or 60 hours of delicious HD. At $200, the price doesn't seem all that bad either.

The 9.2 update also brings a few other goodies to Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs, including TiVoToGo (finally), multiroom viewing, and progressive downloads, which allows you to start watching TiVoCast and Amazon Unbox once enough content has been buffered. Now where's my update?

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