TiVo is great

I've had TiVo for about seven years or so now so I know it well. I originally got TiVo because of the time shifting capabilities. I would sit down to watch TV about 10:30 pm after everyone else in my house had gone to bed but there wasn't much on that I wanted to watch. I remember watching a lot of Leave it to Beaver reruns. Then along came TiVo and I could watch whatever I wanted whenever I wanted. In addition, I could use it to easily zip past the commercials. And the auto recording capability was amazing. Setting it to search and record all show of a particular actor, subject, title etc. and having it auto record all regular shows that I wanted to watch. Anyway, all these years later I can't imagine watching TV without it. I find it annoying now to watch unrecorded shows because of the commercials. So I highly recommend TiVo if you can get it. Not all DVR (digital video recorder) services are the same however. I recently added another receiver because I wanted HD and since DirecTV (my signal provider) does not offer a TiVo HD DVR at this point I had to get their DVR system – not as good. TiVo is the best in my opinion. I think something like only 15% of the TV households have DVR service. I gotta say if you watch TV and you don't want to be tied to the broadcaster's schedule or you want to skip the commercials TiVo is for you too.