Sat, June 19, 2004
Buy Two Of Everything—12:00 PM
I'm preparing for my Schadenfreude Detector to hit OVERLOAD... last night, my TiVo died in its sleep.
The real kicker here is that it's probably a hardware issue, which means the unit has to be replaced. And, because my TiVo unit is over two years old, they're telling me that the model I have is most likely not available. I'm having to call all over town to see if anyone has one in stock. Why can't stores just have things? Why does everything have to get discontinued? It never breaks in the first two weeks, when you could head back to the store and find a plethora of identical TiVos. No, it waits until the entire product line has been pulled – then you need one and you have about 45 frantic minutes before you're committed to an event across town, so you get to scramble around like an idiot.
Update: It would appear that nobody sells the same unit anywhere in town. My options are to find a new unit on eBay, or to just try replacing the hard drive in my current unit. I'm leaning towards replacing the hard drive, because I'm virtually positive that it's just a hardware failure. I've also contacted über-expensive data recovery experts Drive Savers and they may be able to recover my recordings and put them on a new drive that I can pop back into TiVo. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Developing…
AC — Sat, 6/19/04 2:18pm
Our prayers are with you. I've lit a candle.
"Holly" — Sun, 6/20/04 1:59am
Make that two candles.