TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder (*TiVo Service Fee Not Included)
This product is a dead end all non-digital Tivos are
This product does a fairly good job of recording over the air or satellite analog programming, except for some of the strange problems you can run into using a dish receiver I have had little problems on Dish or DirecTV with standard programs. But this device will NOT control an external receiver for anything but Satellite reception and it will never support HDTV reception regardless of weather you wish to record at the lower level of recording. It will never support digital local stations at all. All local stations are handled thru it's local receiver and it doesn't do Digital. While there is support for Satellite based digital coming, regardless of what they name the DVR it will not be support directly or indirectly by TiVo. Because of that there is no upgrade from TiVo for digital. I own one of these and it's not worth much now that I have more local digital stations then analog stations and I can only really get a reasonable signal on digital because of my location. In fact I haven't been able to find any supporter of local Digital Recording on any receiver or DVR. I made the mistake of buying a really good receiver and I can watch them but no programming to schedule recordings with so the feature is useless.<BR> Oh, and don't expect the Digital TiVo to work with local Digital stations on a local Antenna, it probably won't even list them and it certainly won't record them because it will be maintained by some provider like DirecTV that has no interest in supporting their competition, and they have stated they will not support any channel not transmitted over their satellite.