TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder (*TiVo Service Fee Not Included)
Christmas present for my wife
I got my wife a Tivo for Christmas 2003.  Her first reaction was why do we need one of those when we already have a VCR?  So after explaining to her the differences and how it was suppose to change the way TV would be watched she allowed me to install it.  The biggest selling point was that it wouldn't miss recording her shows.<br />Well now that we have used it for a couple of months she has become a big Tivo fan.  We now have it programmed to hunt down old movies to record so that we always have a library of old movies to watch.  <br />The other thing that has been a big hit is the pause feature.<br />The only downside is the picture quality when watching football games.  For whatever reason it seems to have trouble with football.  But all the other pluses outweigh this.<br />So overall I highly recommend Tivo.