TiVo is serving up some might tasty new features on its forthcoming Series 4 Premiere DVRs.
So it’s no surprise that consumers and resellers alike will be pawning off their Series 3 products leading up to the April release of the newer models.
Today, Woot! is offering refurbished TiVo Series 3 TCD648250 250GB THX-certified DVRs for $170 plus the usual $5 for shipping.
Is that a good deal or not? The 320GB Premiere model has an MSRP of $300, and the street price will no doubt be lower after a month or so after the product’s release.
Currently, used (not refurbished) TCD648250 DVRs start at about $245 and new ones are going for $475 and up.
So what do you think. Is Woot’s offering a deal ... or no deal?

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If you’re a current Tivo owner, you can pre-order the Premiere for $240 as special “upgrade pricing”. That’s the real deal in my book.
That said, $170 is a solid deal for an S3, with the 160gb Tivo HD only sporadically hitting that price point, and that’s without the OLED display and “Glow” remote. Anything’s better than a cable-company DVR.