Sony SVR-2000 Digital Video Recorder
Never miss an episode again
Tivo has changed the way I watch TV - I will never miss an episode of the West Wing again (or Six Feet Under, or South Park, etc . . .)  It walks you thru the set-up and the show summaries give you all of the information you ever need.  Now that I have it, I can't even imagine how I lived without it.