Philips HDR112 Tivo Digital Video Recorder
Looks  and monthly fees do count
Call me shallow, but I have a very cool home theater system here at home. I have one piece of advice for TiVo: fire whoever is designing your unit! It looks like some 1960's Jetson box with a cyclops eye---make that  eyeSORE. Although I thought it might look ok and get lost between my other  equuipment, it stuck out like a sore thumb in my cabinet.<br />I know I sound  like some loser who doesn't care about WHAT the box does--but I do. And it  worked fine (although it took me two days to get their customer service to  get back to me). Bottom line-I have no gripes with how it worked. It does  very cool things like pause live shows.<br />And there was one other thing  that pissed me off--the monthly fee deal that I wasn't told about at the  store! Why not just be up front about it?  The customer is going to find  out eventually.<br />When I realized that I had to kick out $10 a month, that  was the straw that broke the camel back.<br />After it was all over, I went  online a bought a ReplayTV. Totally cool box, works flawlessly and doesn't  cost me anything but the price I paid.