Philips HDR112 Tivo Digital Video Recorder
best thing since sliced bread
Tivo has revolutionized my tv watching in the two months we have had this device. The machine setup itself was simple to follow. However, it took my engineer tv watching daughter and me a day to think through the options of  hookup with a single tv monitor, a cable box and a vcr. we can  simultaneously record different channels on tivo and the vcr, we can select  to watch tivo live or playback or vcr.<br />The very strong features not in  order of preference are the (1) ease of surfing for current live program  with program summaries displayed, (2) searching for program names in future  for recording. (3) the season pass feature for recording all episodes of a  given series, with automatic change when certain episodes change time for  local programming needs, i.e. CBS Sunday morning on the west coast changes  from week to week in football season (4) ability to watch a program from  the beginning while it is continuing to record the completion of the  program, i.e. the evening news, I get home about 5:45 and can watch from  the beginning and skip stories not interesting to me.<br />Also good is TiVo  &quot;suggestions&quot;, which I wouldn't have recorded in the first place,  but having recorded available, I can choose to view or not. ease of  deletion, a mere click. My tv watching is broadened because of this  feature.<br />controlled viewing of playback is an excellent feature. we can  pause a playback, do other things and come back to the place we left off.  to review something near the end is excellent, skip to end and then back  scan.<br />Sports recording is a mild disappointment because of the limited  recording time at the high level of resolution necessary for comfortable  watching. IF i don't have other cultural programs on storage waiting to be  seen, it is good. higher disk capacity would be better.<br />all in all an  excellent device for tv watching computer nerds.