Philips HDR112 Tivo Digital Video Recorder
Great 1st Gen Product
IMHO - TIVO's a great 1st generation product.  Well worth the$$.  To clear up a few misconceptions:<br />1) Yes, TIVO does charge fortheir guide service. HOWEVER, you don't HAVE to use it to be able to record stuff in &quot;timer mode&quot;.  Also, all you need to do to get the TRUE cost is add the lifetime subscription cost to the cost of the unit or DirecTV subscribers .  If you look at the total costs that way, TIVO and Replay wind up costing about the same. <br />2) TIVO's &quot;suggestions&quot; are just that - you can turn them off (in which case it will NEVER record them) or leave 'em on.  If you read TIVO's privacy statement, you'll see that TIVO NEVER sends this stuff to anyone - there's no &quot;big brother&quot; here.<br />As far as actual usage goes - we've had ours about a month.  The only complaint I have is that it doesn't yet show PPV channels from DirecTV in the guide (easy to work around).  I use it to record all of the shows I care about on Season Passes, and then spend one nite/week as a &quot;TV Nite&quot; I'm actually thinking about turning suggestions back on, to let it pick up things I might have otherwise missed.