Sony SVR-2000 Digital Video Recorder
Avoid the Sony SVR-2000!
First let me say, the TiVo service is great!  Best thing since color TV.<BR>The Sony SVR-2000 is a piece of junk, and I'm not alone in that opinion.  My SVR-2000 died after about 9 months - it would hang up then refuse to reboot.  I called Sony tech support and (after waiting for hours on hold) they had me (repeatedly) cycle the power and reset the system, which did not help.  Duh!  They finally told me to send it back to Sony for repairs.  It was still under warranty, but Sony charged me $92 for labor and shipping!  When I got it back I discovered that Sony had replaced the hard drive and the motherboard.  Mind you, the SVR-2000 only contains three components: the hard drive, the motherboard and the power supply.  Sony did refund my $92 service charge, which seemed nice at the time.  The warranty expired a month after Sony sent it back.  Three months after they sent it back, it died again.  I am NOT paying Sony to fix what is obviously a defective product.  My SVR-2000 is now sitting in my office gathering dust.  I paid for the lifetime TiVo subscription, so now I'm out around $400.  I will never buy another Sony product!<BR>I've read a lot of other reviews of the SVR-2000 (on other web sites) and a lot of them tell exactly the same story.