Philips HDR312 TiVo 30-Hour Digital Video Recorder
Control your TV: don't let it control you
My wife and I just don't watch live TV at all anymore. Not since we got our Tivo. Whenever we're ready to watch TV, we sit down, look at what Tivo has recorded for us, pick the show we're most interested in, and watch it. Owning a Tivo is literally life-altering: we watch stuff on TV that we really want to see... not just the stuff that happens to be on when we sit down to watch.<br />Calling it a personal video recorder may make it sound complicated, but what a Tivo does is pretty easy to understand: it records the programs you want to watch when they're on, whether you're there or not.<br />The menu system that Tivo uses is much, much easier to understand than the typical VCR and - while it takes a little getting used to - installing and using a Tivo is simple, too.<br />Unlike a VCR, you won't have new shows to watch right away, but hang in there. In a week or so, you'll have so many to watch you won't have enough time to see them all! Tivo lets you set up &quot;season passes&quot; to record all your favorite shows, it has &quot;wish lists&quot; that help you find shows you want to watch {but didn't know were on) plus it will automatically find and record shows like the ones you've already said you like.<br />Wow!! We've had this gizmo for five months and we couldn't imagine living without it!