Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
After the &quot;Gee Whiz&quot;
Probably worth the price, but not perfect. The modem on my unit failed after 2 weeks. Tivo advises they have to receive the faulty unit before they will replace it. I'll be without for a couple of weeks. I buy on line  to avoid hassles. If products have to be returned, the hassle factor is too  high. Quality control please! <br />Bad features: *1. In 'season pass' mode,  recording start and stop times can't be adjusted. Programs starting some  seconds (up to 40 in my experience) before scheduled time get clipped. *2.  In 'manual mode' record time has to be set in 5-minute increments. Ie,you  can't set it 1 minute early to catch the first of those early programs:  wasteful of capacity. *3. The tuner and/or recorded outputs are  disconnected during all programming modes so you can't  continue listening  to an ongoing program or recording during programing and monitoring of the  unit.