Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
The technology _IS_ here
I've purchased TIVO soon after it came out, spending about $700 for the unit and $199 for lifetime (note, it is the lifetime of my TIVO unit, not  my own lifetime) subscription to the service. Initial setup took me about  an hour, and the system worked perfectly ever since. Picture quality is  great. It is almost SuperVHS-like when my TV reception is at its best on  best quality (which gives you 10 hours on &quot;30 hour&quot; unit). Guess  what -- I never ran out of space. I even have a small archive of Futurama  cartoons that I have not moved to a VCR (yes, you can do that).<br />I see  lockups mentioned in previous reviews. My unit locked up once during setup.  All you need to do is reboot TIVO by unplugging the box. I've had no other  problems whatsoever.<br />As a result I do not watch live TV any more and  never miss any shows that I like. While watching TIVO I zoom through  commercial I do not like, but I repeat the ones that I do like (I think  that I watched Palm commercial with a girl beaming her phone number to a  dude a few dozens of times :).<br />Fast forwarding is awesome! You can  always zoom back to the phrase you misunderstood, or zoom forward skipping  a boring part.