TiVo TCD540040 Series2 40-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Tivo---Television worth watching
This 40-hour Tivo is our second machine.  This in a family that swore we would never own one. Recently, we recorded the entire Tour de France and watched it at our discretion, sometimes back to back stages, and my wife watches Oprah and General Hospital when she has the time.   <br /> <br />This is an intelligent, excellent replacement for the old VCR. The 40-hr hard drive is a bit small, I recommend the 140 hr version.  <br /> <br />The features of the Series 2 machines make them indespensible like:  Easily skipping through commercials, recording a season pass of TV shows and watching them when you want, networking your Tivo to your home network to transfer shows between Tivos or to your PC, selecting shows to record from a Web browser anywhere in the world and have the program ready to watch when you get home.   <br /> <br />Once setup and registered with Tivo, the menus are easy to use, the options for each recording plentiful and the quality of the playback, even in Basic recording mode, is excellent.   <br /> <br />Our Tivo have enabled us to watch only the TV shows we want, when we want and speed through the parts that are of no interest.  Tivo is what TV should have always been.   <br /> <br />Did I mention you can pause live TV and continue watching when you are ready!  Wow.