TiVo TCD649080 Series 2 80-Hour Dual Tuner Digital Video Recorder (2008 Model)
TiVo's 80 Hour Dual: Less TV viewing, just better!
WOW! My wife bought me this for Father's Day. I'm not a jewelry type of guy, but TiVo is drop-dead freakin' awesome, speechlessly amazing!<br /><br />If you don't know TiVo: plug it in, let it set itself up, and every time you turn on your set, it quietly records as you watch, so if you get up to take a call or get a snack, no problem: TiVo's got you covered.<br /><br />Watch \\"The Dead Zone?\\" Take a 20 minute break and let TiVo start taping for you: you'll zip through what you don't want and back up to what you want to see again. No tape, no picture loss.<br /><br />TiVo starts with a 15 second or so guide over your picture of what's on that show, how long and whatever else you need to know; not even \\"Today Show\\" is immune from TiVo knowing what's coming up. If you think there's nothing good on, use TiVo to search it all out. Cut your cable back to basic, bud; you'll have more finds with a lot less, guaranteed.<br /><br />Program what you want to copy via the net. Yahoo! support for photos and junk.<br /><br />Fandango ticket purchases, movie previews, it will even learn, if you want it to, what you like to watch. Very, very easy to hook up although working it into my LCD TV has yet to figure out what hook up is best, although we rewired it and the picture dramatically improved, so thanks Tivo for showing me a few options that were better!<br /><br />I do NOT use TiVo's alphabetical directory of shows: slow. I DO use Yahoo! TV guides to just click and pick: fast and easy as pie.<br /><br />My eMac still can't use TiVo's desktop app, but one'a these days I'll get it working.<br /><br />Slide shows: better than I thought I'd ever use. Love it!<br /><br />Check out the newest features and tutorials; you'll just flip and keep flipping.<br /><br />Recommended: Sign up for the 3-year plan and f'get about it. By the time it's paid up, the next generation of Tivo will be around. It is a safe bet.<br /><br />Anybody who trash-talks TiVo doesn't know it, so tune out critics and tune in devotees and never, ever miss a good show again.know it, so tune out critics and tune in devotees and never, ever miss a good show again.