Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Great technology marred by crash prone behavior...
well, my first Tivo unit came DOA - apparently the hard drive cable was not connected to the system board. Tivo/Phillips people sent me a refurbished unit (in only a week - very timely) - the new unit worked for 2 days, then crashola. it tells me politely to wait for 3 hours whilst it attempts to recover. &quot;A serious system error has occurred.&quot; it warns me. I wait. nothing happens. i call Tivo. they tell me to &quot;let it sit for 24 hours to rebuild itself.&quot; it sits. i wait. nothing. now i will call again, wasting another $14 to ship the unit back to them to replace. this time i am going to ask for a new replacement unit, not a refurbished one. perhaps this time it will work. when it is working, it is phenomental. when it is working, that is. which for me has been two days over the past three weeks. sigh.