Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Changes TV into something refreshing!
I've had my 30 hour Tivo unit for a couple of weeks now and I am really enjoying it. Its easy to use, and was fairly easy to set up with my cable box and Philips Magnavox TV.<br />With TiVO unit,your no longer at the mercy of whatever happens to be on TV when you actually have some free time to watch something. There's actually alot of cool stuff on TV, it's just that most of it is at inconvenient times. (work,sleep etc) <br />The Philips Tivo unit is very easy to drive, yet is very powerful in what it allows you to do. The TVguide listings are very handy to see whats on at a glance, and the searching options to find things to records are very flexible. The TiVo magazine recommendations are also very handy, highlighting things I might not have thought to record. The tIVo recommendations generated from you viewing habits are also sometimes interesting, and worth looking at once in a while to try out something new.<br />The automatic updates to the software is an excellent feature, with the latest version of the software being an excellent revision...with the Season Pass manager being an excellent enhancement to an already great system.<br />Thanks for making such a cool TiVO unit at an excellent price Philips...and hats of to the creators of the TiVo service, a truly excellent idea.<br />The only thing I would say that 30Hours really isnt 30Hours unles your recording on the worst quality. On medium quality which is totally cool, you get about 21hours on a 30hour unit.<br />If you dont own a TiVO unit and have cable TV access, your just not getting value for money out of your cable connection, do yourself a huge favour and by a TiVO unit. You wont regret it.<br />Cheers,