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Buried beneath Apple’s truckload of announcements — a movie download service; new iPod Nano and Shuffle; a box that lets users wirelessly watch downloaded video on a regular TV screen — was the debut of another movie-watching marvel: TiVo’s less heralded debut of its most potent and long-awaited product – the Series3 HD DVR. 
 
For TiVo enthusiasts, it is a great day. The box supports high-definition broadcast with THX quality, boasts a dual tuner, and is ready to handle downloading services (once TiVo announces such a service).

All for, um, $800. The company says that for its targeted customers, who already are eyeing a giant flat screen TV and accompanying home theater accoutrement that is money that have already got waiting in the piggy bank.

However, PC Magazine, in a full review, said TiVo disabled its popular TiVoToGo feature — which let users move recorded shows to a PC or portable player — in the new device. So on the same day that Apple announced new ways to move digital content from device to device around the home, TiVo appears to have taken away that power.

Engadget has pictures and video of the new box here. 

Read Reuters story here.