TiVo TCD540040 Series2 40-Hour Digital Video Recorder
can't live without...but
I have had tivo for almost 2 years,  i am currently going on my fourth unit.  <br />Don't get me wrong...I love my tivo,  i don't have to stay up late to watch my shows, i can tape movies in the middle of the night and i can find things by just punching in a keyword into the wishlist.  for this i would give 4.5 stars <br />However, my first tivo died w/in 6 months, and had all the season finales on it that i couldn't watch, the hard drive died.  I called tivo and for $99 dollars i got a refurbished tivo.  This i was not happy about.  Nothing i could do about it.  Got the refurbished tivo and it last over a year, but started giving me problems w/in 10 months.  Again, i called tivo, this time all i had to pay was to ship the bad unit back and w/in a week i had my new (refurbished) tivo.   hooked it up and it wasn't refurbished good enough.  After a total of 2 hours on hold and 3 phone calls later, i am going to get a new (refurbished) tivo for the cost of S&H.   <br />If i hadn't paid the lifetime fee i would give up on tivo and go w/ adelphia's dvr!! <br />like i said, don't get me wrong i love it, when it is working.   <br />I have placed the unit on top of my sony wega because i do not have room in my tv stand, plus i don't want it to get overheated, now i am told that the EMF from my tv may be causing my hard drive to go bad.  This is what i was told when i called about the 3rd tivo.  MMMM....nobody else told me about this before.  <br />Now, my sister owns a tivo from when they first came out and has never had a problem.  I guess it is just me!! <br />I am giving them one more shot and if this one fails w/in the next year, i give up and i am writing them a nasty gram!!