Pioneer DVR-810HS DVD Recorder with TiVo Basic Service
Problematic
I purchased this product in early February and have yet to be able to use it (it's now the beginning of April) for longer than around 10 minutes; this despite two returns to Pioneer for repair.  In use the picture either freezes after a few minutes, or the unit resets itself.  In addition, the picture shows high frequency flicker (I am using component video).  The current thinking from Pioneer is that I need to plug the unit directly into the wall rather than into a surge protection power strip.  I'll try that out.<BR>I own a Replay TV unit and only tried this unit because it reduced the overall number of boxes in my living room (replacing the PVR, DVD and MP3 player with a single box).  I hoped that Tivo would have better software than Replay TV (I had some issues with their unit as well) but it appears not.  One requires a real telephone line to perform the initial setup (unlike ReplayTV) and apparently my Vonage line just won't do.  I finally discovered that it is possible to use the broadband connection for the initial set up but the information was not easy to find.  One Tivo tech. actually denied that it was possible and I only found the information after searching the internet.<BR>On the plus side Pioneer support has been reasonable but I still don't have a working unit.<BR>I regret having purchased this unit and would suggest that Pioneer should not have released something which clearly has problems operating in the real world.