TiVo TCD540040 Series2 40-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Wow!!  This product BITES !!!!!!!!
We've had it for one day.  ONE DAY.  And it goes back tomorrow.<br /><br />The DVR from our local cable company was fair at best. It broke 6mos into having it....so we got TiVO.  TiVo seems worse.<br /><br />Set up was easy enough - but oy - the delays in your normal channel changing is incredibly slow (slower than the cable DVR -which, I thought, was significant).  The up/down function is slightly better than pressing in the channel number (seriously -you wait 15 seconds for it to change). Sometimes you cannot even get OFF a channel as you attempt to flip - like I want to be stuck in QVC for an eternity!<br /><br />Watching one program while taping another requires splitting cables.  No delay in channel surfing requires a SECOND cable box.<br /><br />I have no patience for this crap.  The technology should be there...especially at the price for which they gouge you.<br /><br />A standard VCR (or the cable DVR)is better than this product. Other reviews have told of TiVos horrible customer service - and time (tomorrow!) will tell how on-the-mark they are.