Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
The best $400 you will ever spend!
As you have probably read above TiVo allows you to pause and rewind live TV as well as record shows easily.  That all sounds good in theory, but the amazing things is that it is better in practice!   I don't watch a lot of  TV so when I watch it I want it to be good, that is exactly what TiVo gives  me.  I don't watch more TV, I watch better TV.  People are under the  impression that this product is for people addicted to TV, I think of it as  just the opposite, it is for people who like some TV but don't want to be a  slave to it.  <br />I know quite a few people who own it now and every single  one of them is very happy with it.  I don't think I have ever seen a  product that can say that.  It is worth every penny you will spend on  it!