TiVo TCD649080 Series 2 80-Hour Dual Tuner Digital Video Recorder (2008 Model)
TiVo should tell all.....
No where on the outside of the box my TiVo was packed in, nor in the sales pitch given me at Best Buy, was there any mention of the price of the monthly fee for this system. That was just a minor irritation, I had guessed there would be one...just not quite so high. Much worse, neither was there any mention of the fact that if you have a DSL computer connection that the TiVo will not be able to communicate over your telephone line, as it is supposed to.  DSL phone service introduces some mostly inaudible noise, reducing the signal-to-noise ratio below the level the TiVo can tolerate.  So after 'fessing up to the fact that it probably will not work for you, the TiVo folks tell you to connect it to your computer. So I bought a wireless router and set up a laptop next to the TiVo.  But the connection wire they supply was inappropriate for the computer.  At this point I called DISH and asked how much their integrated receiver/digital recorder went for...and the answer was WAY less per month than TiVo, and $49 for the unit rather than $230.  The TiVo went back (Amazon was great about the return), the DISH unit came and was set up and running in 30 min. Now we are recording all the US Open tennis matches, etc., and are happy as clams.  Maybe we don't have all the TiVo bells and whistles, but for our needs the DISH system is the way to go.  Programming is super simple and it has a 100+ hr.c capacity.  Way more than we really need.  My main gripe with TiVo is that they should have told me about the potential problems, why make me struggle with it at home for several days before realizing I'd been a dunce? Be warned.