{"id":3474,"date":"2009-06-18T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2009-06-18T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T04:00:00","slug":"directivo-repair-or-replace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3474","title":{"rendered":"DirecTivo: Repair or Replace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard back more from Weaknees and DirecTV (<a href=\"http:\/\/cahwyguy.livejournal.com\/895796.html\" target=\"_blank\">background to story<\/a>). Now to decide what to do. I&#8217;m open to opinions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Repair Option.<\/b> We take the unit to Weakness. They diagnose ($99) and repace one or both tuners ($129 to $159). We could upgrade the drive while we&#8217;re at it, which would be additional labor ($79) plus the drive ($109 to $259). So, effectively, we&#8217;re talking between $450 and $600 to repair and upgrade, but we keep a Tivo unit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Replace Option.<\/b> DirecTV has indicated we get a free service call. They called us, and indicated they no longer have replacement DirecTivo units, and cannot repair them. They would replace it with a DirecTV DVR (non-Tivo) [for free, they claim]. We would need to watch\/burn stuff off the Tivo before we could replace it, meaning we would have to live with the bad tuner until then (meaning I might need to buy a season of Weeds).<\/p>\n<p>Opinions? Is sticking with the Tivo worth $500? Are the DirecTV DVRs that bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard back more from Weaknees and DirecTV (background to story). Now to decide what to do. I&#8217;m open to opinions&#8230; Repair Option. We take the unit to Weakness. They diagnose ($99) and repace one or both tuners ($129 to $159). We could upgrade the drive while we&#8217;re at it, which would be additional labor <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3474\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-directv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}