Philips HDR112 Tivo Digital Video Recorder
You were right!
I thought these reviews were from Tivo employees until I bought my own tivo. It is as fantastic as these reviews state! Works like a charm, cures Tv surfing for good, and may make you a couch potato. Has s-video  connections, hooks to the data port on rca directv units to control the  satellite, never misses a show. This is the future of tv viewing, here now.  I have had a great experience with this Tivo 14hr unit. Even in the lowest  recording quality, tv looks great. I record 99% in low quality with no  problems. And 14 hours is really fine for time, otheriwse I would NEVER  have the time to watch all I recorded in a days span. The advanced tv  listings is worth the $10 a month in it self, or you can switch to a  lifetime plan anytime for $200. And now the 14 hour Tivo units are  everywhere for $399 with a $100 rebate for current, or new directv users.  With the rebates, a Tivo unit for $299 is a better choice than a vcr. Tivo  comes with hords of hookup cables and solves the &quot;no local  channels&quot; issue for small satellite users by allowing the satellite  channels and local channels from an antenna or cable tv service to be  intergrated into one, in the Tivo tv listings and taping. If your reading  these reviews and thinking of buying, BUY! You WILL NOT regret it!  And  with the rebates, and a 30-day money back from tivo, your the winner. But  you wont want to return this. Drawbacks are few. One is a looong setup  proceedure when you first hookup tivo, as it downloads tv first time tv  listings and sorts them all. Also, it can become slow and pokey in responce  to the remote, but snaps out of it shortly. Ive seen this mostly when going  through listings while the unit is recording a program at the same time.  And the remotes pause button and play button should of been switched, and  the thumbs up/down button should be much smaller and located at the bottom  of the remote where the enter and clear are located. Thats it! Just picky  drawbacks that are a pleasure to put up with for the convience of using the  Tivo. You'll LOVE it! I didnt think I would, and I do. Iam just glad I went  and got one, and as other reviews state here, &quot; I wouldnt give it up  for anything&quot;...