Toshiba RS-TX60 DVD Recorder with 160 GB TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder
Beyond my expectations
I purchased this item from Computer Brain - fully expected to not get it by Xmas - as I ordered just the week before.  It came with 3 days to spare!  Hookup was easy and straightforward, there was a special running so I purchased the lifetime TIVO advanced service - well worth it.  I've scheduled items to be recorded on the TIVO from the web, and downloaded items to my laptop and desktop PCs.  I used a USB wired Ethernet adaptor that plugs into my wireless bridge (Along with my XBOX and XBOX 360).  They all coexist over the wireless ethernet just fine.<br /><br />The subscription or \\"season pass\\" functionality is just awesome.  I no longer watch live TV - I have the TIVO record it at the quality, frequency I want and watch the TIVOed shows.  Never understood why people raved about them until I had one.  The DVD burner works great - just two minor gripes - it would be really nice to have the ability to mark a begin and end point in a show and record just that - I'm not talking advanced editing, just a couple of quick bookmarks.  Especially with Encore shows you typically get an extra 10 or 15 minutes of blather on either end of the movie that you end up having to record that sometimes pushes the movie over the time limit of the recording media so it needs 2 disks.<br /><br />The other minor complaint is that it only takes DVD-R/RW but that's not that big a deal.<br /><br />It would be nice if the unit had the secondary input jacks replicated on the back so you didn't have to plug in video recorders for dubbing into the unit in the front, but it's not THAT big a deal.<br /><br />All in all a terrific unit with a nice design and a lot of utility!