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Other reviews have criticized the Ultimate TV service as being slow and unnecessarily cumbersome to navigate.  Now, I'll be the first to admit I have not tried the TiVo service.  But I am thrilled with this product and have no desire to make a change.  It is true, when I first started up the unit it was a little slow.  But, overnight Ultimate TV downloaded the new 3.5 version of the ClientSW onto my unit and presto, its faster and has more advanced search features that I believe are more inline with the TiVo offerings.  As far as navigating through the program guide and search functions, there may be a step or two more (I don't know) but I was able to accomplish it with minimal use of the instruction manual.  I can't speak to the internet access features.  As far as I'm concerned I am way too connected already and the last thing I want to do is surf the Net while watching TV.  That's why I have this other thing called a PC.