Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Had one for over a year, best thing for TV since color!
Well we all see the reviewer below. I hope you don't base your purchase decision on what he tells you about what Tivo doesnt do.  If you watch one show a week, of course it is not for you.  At least not until it becomes the norm and you can't buy a VCR (about 5 years away).  However, no more commercials, oh you missed that line in live TV, just hit replay, and you never have to care when anything is on.  Also for all of you without Satelite, you get a full program guide with everything on every channel you get for the next two weeks, and every day it updates itself with a short local call in the middle of the night.  Tivo records suggestions that you train it (very easy thumb up shows you like thumb down shows you dont), and these suggestions can be saved for longer, deleted right away, or deleted when Tivo needs the space.  Ever watch crappy TV that was the only thing on.  Tivo gives you basically a lot of channels with only things that you and your family like.  If it is something you love, you can always send the show or movie to VCR and keep it for good to free up room on Tivo or you can keep it on Tivo if you have the room under save until I delete.  There customer service is excellent compared to most other tech comps, and they have the backing of some of the biggest in the business such as AOL, CBS, NBC, and HBO.  No more oh, Sopranos is on at 8/9 I need to go home.  Forget you can watch it when you want and in much better quality than that grainy VCR.  This is the future, and it is here now.  True, DVD recorders will be coming, but unless you got a chance to burn $2000 for one during the course of the next two years, Tivo is the best way to view TV.  It doesnt take long to setup, if you can hook up a vcr, you can hook up Tivo.  And there is loads of help out there on the web.  A lot of sales clerks don't really know much about the machine, but take it home give it the 30 day trial, and you probably will never be able to remember the days before you had it!Everyone who has seen it in action at my house loves it and wants one for themselves.  It is not a gimmick, everyone from my little nephew (4 years old) to my grandmother figured it out in less than 20 minutes, and now they keep on telling me I am going to be hit up for one when their birthdays roll around if they dont take the plunge before hand (obviuosly the nephew cant buy it himself, my brother already got two for the whole family).  Give it a chance if you have the means.  You will not be disappointed!