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For a product that has yet to be released, the mysterious TiVo Series 2 Dual Tuner DVR has quite a history. First, it was spotted on Amazon with no expected release date. Then, it just disappeared from Amazon’s website — no announcements from TiVo, just gone. Now, we apparently have an official announcement from TiVo that there will be a Dual Tuner TiVo! According to the press release issued by TiVo the new unit will be called the TiVo Series 2 DT DVR and will include all the features of current Series 2 Tivo’s in addition to the Dual Tuners. The new TiVo DT will be available in two different sizes — 80 hour and 180 hour — although the TiVo press release only mentions the availability of the 80 Hour unit. It is supposed to be available from retailers and TiVo.com on May 1st, 2006.

The product page at Amazon for the TiVo DT currently lists it as unavailable and they do not have a date as of yet. They also only list the 80 hour TiVo DT, so the 180 hour unit is, at this point, just a rumor.

Looks like I’m going to have to start saving my money. I definitely want to get one of these as soon as they are available in May and I’ll post an indepth review here after I’ve been able to play with it for awhile.

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