Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
It is the most amazing product ever
I buy every gadget that is available.  90% do not become part of my daily routine and are put in basement.  I purchased TiVo not knowing what to expect.  This device is the most amazing gadget to ever come around.  If  TiVo sudendly costed $10,000 and ours broke I would replace it without  thinking twice.  Once you watch TV through Tivo you never ever will go  back.  I don't watch much network TV and mostly watch financial stuff,  MoneyLine, NBR, football game.  With this device I watch these shows when I  feel like it.  I never miss them.  I watch the football game in 1 1/4 hours  using fastforward.  I have 5 kids under 8 and they store their Pokemon on  the device and no longer is there any rewiding, finding a tape.  It is a  revolutionairy device.  This device will be standard part of a TV at some  point, everyone will have one.  Our TiVo has worked perfectly and has never  needed to be rebooted.  Only improvement is that it can't handle two season  passes that conflict from time to time and it records every ER when you  really only want the one at 9:00 on Thursdays.  You have to manually put in  the time and channel.  I bet both of these will be fixed through software  at some time.  It does automatic software updates at night over the  phoneline so no hassle.