According to the TiVo Community Forum, several online retailers this week posted product pages for the new TiVo Series 3 recorder but then quickly pulled them off their sites.
The retailers said the new HD DVR would have a suggested retail price of $299.
TiVo has said publicly that it plans to offer a less expensive HD DVR before year's end. (The current TiVo Series 3 HD DVR retails for $799.) But it has publicly given no launch dates nor pricing points.
The DVR service has acknowledged that the lack of an affordable high-def recorder has hurt its efforts to benefit from the growing HDTV market.
ZDNet.com reports that the online retailers said the new TiVo HD DVR would have the following specifications:
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