Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Terrific Product
I bought a TIVO 12 months ago, with some hesitation.  But after a full year of ownership, I recommend it with  great enthusiam. This is an absolutely wonderful product. It has totally transformed my TV watching experience.  I now really never watch live TV, but rather the TIVO only.  If I am in the mood to watch TV, I just hit the &quot;What's Showing&quot; selection and have a choice of 4 or 5 movies that I requested to be recorded (and have since forgotten I requested them); and perhaps one or two NOVA's, an episode or two of Seinfeld, maybe a &quot;Great Performance&quot;, maybe a West Wing, etc. etc. etc.  Because you can instruct it to record every showing of favorite programs, these shows are &quot;now showing&quot; regularly, and without any effort (or recall) on my part. (Even if they are on only occasionally, e.g. Great Performances on PBS). In short, there are always several program selections you personally can enjoy, now, on TV. Always. (And you can skip all the commercials.) Anp pause the show when the phone rimgs.  Or dump it to tape for permanent storage, if you care to.  Moreover, I have had zero technical problems.  Once set up, it is very simple to use.  Even if you don't watch TV much, get one of these things.  There's some great stuff on TV, once you weed out the garbage (documentaries, news shows, science shows, movies, history, concerts, what do you like?) This thing does the weeding.