Philips DSR6000R DIRECTV Receiver with TiVo Service
Tivo but not quite Tivo
I've had the DSR-6000 for a couple of weeks now, and I love it.  As long as you think of it as not a Tivo, and more like the ultimate DirectTV receiver, you will be happy.  It does everthing a standalone Tivo does, EXCEPT, you cannot record anything but DirectTV.  No cable, no antenna, just the satellite.  If you CAN get your local channels from DirectTV, you are set, run, don't walk, to get this receiver!  If you get your locals from cable or an antenna, you are out of luck, you will still need a regular VCR to record ABC, NBC, FOX, WB, and CBS network programming.  That said, your Tivo will work awesome on the hundreds of DirectTV channels.  You can pause live TV, set it to record episodes of you favorite shows,  movies with you favorite actors, movies with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, etc.  It holds up to 35 hours of shows you have told it to record in perfect digital quality, PLUS shows it thinks you might like based on the type of shows you have told it to record, or by giving it Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down on shows in the channel guide.  So that is your choice, awesome convenience with the DirectTV channels, but no local channel recording.  For me, I think it is worth it.