Sony SVR-2000 Digital Video Recorder
You've gotta check this out FIRST .....
Ok so I'm not going to bore you with the TIVO details and how absolutely fabulous it is and is an absolute requirement for people that are not couch potatoes that will watch just about anything. I bought this unit just after it came out and so have most people in my family and my friends ... <br />First thing ... I've had no troubel with the unit but I've heard of some HD problems so do buy any ectended warranty ... remember this sucker is a computer and it's on 24 hours a day 7 days a week ... nuff said OK <br />Second thing ... I just bought another unit for my house, we'll not discuss the problems with my wife and thousands of Martha Stewrt programs being recorded, and I bought the sony TIVO with the Dorect TV receiver ..... <br />Now this is INCREDIBLE when I called Direct TV to sign up the TIVO and the new receiver I learned that if I had more of these combo units I wouldn't have to but a $ 250 .00 liftime TIVO hookup for additional units since they are mirrored into my account with Direct TV ...I asked the cust service rep to double check and she confirmed that since I have multiple directTV units the additional units and TIVOS are covered under the 4.95 additional receiver Direct TV charge ... <br />Since i have one stand alone TIVO and one Combo unit I had to pay for life time TIVO but had I had multipe combo units (Direct TV with the TIVO) it would have been a freeby .... WOW <br />TIVO and DIRECT TV I cant live witout them ......