Toshiba SD-H400 Combination Progressive-Scan DVD Player and TiVo Digital Media Server
Mostly good
My TV cabinet didn't have much room for extra components, so a new Tivo unit was going to be a tight squeeze.  That's where the Toshiba DVD/Tivo (or as a friend coined, DVDivo) unit comes in.  The DVDivo solves this problem by being rather small and by replacing my existing DVD player.<br />Not counting the mandatory rewiring of the video and audio cables, the install was mostly a piece of cake.  You first setup and configure the box with the phone line (a handy 25' phone cable is included.)  That took about 30 minutes.  After that, the Tivo was supposed to recognize my Linksys network adapter.  It didn't.  I had to reconnect with the phone line and spend another 90 minutes downloading (are we there yet?) the 5.1b Tivo software update.  After that, the wireless worked A-OK.  <BR>During all this update time I could, of course, still watch and pause live TV.<br />On the downside, I'll admit that the unit is a little noisy.  If I'm cruising the Tivo menus without the TV audio on, I do notice the sound of the hard drive actuators softly clicking away.  I'm not sure if that noise is specific to the Toshiba design.  If so, then I figure it's just a trade-off for having such a small footprint.  It's not a major problem for me.  Besides any audiophile will already have this issue &quot;covered&quot; with glass component doors.<br />The other item to consider is the remote.  Toshiba, I assume, had to stack extra button on their remote to support the DVD player.  This remote works well, except for when you want to use the number buttons the change channels.  The placement of these teeny-tiny number buttons (0-9 + Enter) at the bottom of the remote makes me occasionally use two hands to change channels.  I hope my thumb gets used to it.  Better yet, I hope that Tivo is so good that I'll never have to manually enter channel numbers again.  <br />Despite those two items, I'm very pleased with my purchase.  Now all I have to do is decide between Basic and Plus Tivo service.