June 24, 2011 08:54 pm EDT

TiVo's retail plans for quad-tuner Premiere DVR revealed in FCC filing

If your TiVo-loving heart was crushed last week when we found out that its new Premiere Q DVR would only be offered by cable companies with no plans for retail sales, allow us to put the pieces back together. Zatz Not Funny has dug up an FCC filing dated June 7th indicating TiVo will bring the quad tuner Premiere Elite DVR to retail with 2TB of hard drive space for up to 300 hours of HD recording. The purpose of the filing? To get the FCC to waive requirements that the Elite -- which is designed for digital cable reception only -- contain an analog tuner that it claims would increase costs by $80 - $100. There's no word on price or timing, but it's clearly intended as a high end product that TiVo plans to offer primarily online, through custom installers or specialty outlets like Best Buy's Magnolia stores. If it gets approved we could still see the Elite set-top box this year, assuming the FCC has its approval stamp ready and inked.

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