TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder (*TiVo Service Fee Not Included)
Perfect gift include your installation!
TiVo is the best DVR out there in terms of features and services (far better than Replay TV) but the biggest hurdle to its uptake by the consumer has been the initial installation. It's not as simple as a VCR and we already know the problems that some folks have with that. So we bought TiVo (having owned three personally for over 3 years) as a Christmas gift for my in-laws who are fairly literate electronically but would have had problems with its initial installation and I spent the time installing and setting it up for them. I set up some initial season passes and selected some movies for Tivo'ing. This way they got to get going immediately with watching Tivo at work and viewing programs without having to figure it all out right away. As they used TiVo, they got more comfortable with it and now from what I've been told, it's indispensable...