Philips HDR112 Tivo Digital Video Recorder
Tivo - Superb Product with a few outstanding issues
TiVo is well built, extremely quiet, and very easy to use. After one day, it became an absolute necessity in our household (even my wife loves it)<br />TiVo allows you to rate programs and then it predictively records shows on your behalf. Every time you watch a show, rate it! This is how  TiVo learns. After a week or so, you will get about a 50% success rate with  its prerecordings. This is not bad because the TiVo automatic recording  have a low priority and they will automatically be deleted if the disk runs  low on space, even if you havent seen it. Therefore there is no downside to  allowing TiVo to guess at what you like :)<br />However here is a list of TiVo  shortcomings...<br />1) No commerical ELIMINATION 2) Pricepoint way too high  compared to Replay TV 3) No UHF remote control support 4) Season pass is  not granular enough in control 5) Lack of storage!  (8 hours at med  quality bites) 6) Menus slow. I think CPU may be underpowered 7) No  surround sound, HDTV, or firewire support 8) No multi-profile support(TiVO  is unaware of multiple users)<br />All in all, TiVo is an indespensable part  of our video gear now