Toshiba RS-TX60 DVD Recorder with 160 GB TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder
Perfect for Advanced Tivo'ing
The RS-TX20 works like a charm.  The instruction manual and quick start guide made cabling a fairly straightforward affair.  The variety of cabling options includes cable box, satellite box, both, or straight from the cable.  The unit came with enough cables to make all the connections needed and to then get going.  You can also output to a variety of components including a VCR.  We have ours going to a theatre amp and the improvement in the sound by selecting Dolby 5.1 from the Toshiba/TiVo set-up menu is noticeable.    The only caveat's:    1 - If you have VONAGE or other VOIP - I had a hard time getting the onboard modem to hook to TiVo Central.  This is where all of the data about what is on your local channels comes from.  I had to call Vonage and explain to them what I was doing.  Kudos to Vonage - they were very helpful and with only 20-30 minutes, I was able to hook up to get the initial program load.  If you are doing this, use dialing prefix \\",#034\\" (comma-pound-zero-three-four)((don't forget the comma!!)    2 - The unit is enabled for wired/wireless networking once the initial program load is in.  What they (Toshiba/TiVo) don't tell you is the wireless must be 802.11b.  Not \\"a\\", not \\"g\\".  \\"B\\"!  A pair of USB ports facilitates the network connection, so you will need to troop down to your local electronics store and purchase a USB wireless dongle.  [...]  Make sure you get a \\"B\\"!  The onscreen setup for network connections is a snap and works well.  Only suggestion for future models is one USB, one RJ10 and one RJ45.  By the way, wireless \\"B\\" anything is getting difficult to find as \\"G\\" has been the standard for a while now.      3 - The DVD's must be \\"-\\" that you are going to burn.  Small thing and these are easy to find, but in terms of the \\"nits\\" about the unit that need to be covered in a review, if you are buying a complete setup, make certain you are buying DVD-R's or -RW's.  The DVD burn itself appears to be 2X.  You can continue to watch TV while it burns and the front of the unit provides nice progress indications (percent complete) while the burn progresses.  The burned DVD has great quality and captures all of the TiVo data (prcis) for each thing burned, which makes your DVD's appear to be professionally done.    Overall, this is a fantastic unit.  Were it not for the VOIP and wireless issues, I would have given this unit 5 stars.  Although they are little things, they are the kinds of things that Toshiba should have anticipated being an issue for someone buying a unit to do more than record and playback.  My teenager has been able to figure out how to use it, so ease of use is apparent.  You will thoroughly enjoy the Toshiba RS-TX20 once you have it up and running.