A new DVR capable of recording an astounding three years of standard-definition TV is expected to be unveiled on Tuesday, The Post has learned.
The DVR, from TiVo, will hold about 26,000 hours of TV programming — and could render erasing shows to make room for new recordings a thing of the past.
“That’s 12 times greater than anything else out there,” TiVo CEO Tom Rogers told The Post. The new and powerful DVR will be called TiVo Mega — and comes with an equally mega price tag: about $5,000.
“You can set the Mega to record the TiVo Top 100 movies of all time, merely by pushing a button, and still have 25,800 hours of capacity after that,” Rogers said.
Or, for baseball fans, the Mega can record every game your favorite MLB team plays — for 10 years.
TiVo hopes to take the wraps off TiVo Mega on Tuesday at CEDIA, the home-technology trade show in Denver.
Retail distribution is due in the first quarter of 2015.
“It’s a steep price,” Rogers acknowledged, “so it’s not a product for everyone.”
But with 24 terabytes of recording space, the Mega provides what TiVo calls the “ultimate whole-home solution.”
It has an away-from-home capacity as well in that the Mega can also stream live and recorded TV to smartphones and tablets anywhere.
Ira Bahr, who in March joined San Jose, Calif.-based TiVo as its chief marketing officer, identified the target audience for the high-end product as “the power user who wants to record everything.”
CEO Rogers, meanwhile, credited Bahr for TiVo’s renewed emphasis on the retail market.
A month ago, in an appeal partially directed to customers of now-defunct Aereo, TiVo launched the $49.99-priced Roamio over-the-air DVR.
The Mega represents another retail advance for TiVo after having spent years building up its institutional business.
“We now have 15 of the top 25 pay-TV operators in the US relying on some sort of TiVo product,” Rogers said. “So now we’re making noise about our retail capability.”
