Replay TV is the best. It is a Video Recorder that does everything that a Tivo does with much less intrusion. If you buy an older model on ebay in the 5500 series, you can get the model that automagically skips most commercials. It will talk to your cable box, and if you buy one with the lifetime subscription ($299) it will give you weeks of TV scheduling ahead of time. You also can go to Source Forge and download the driver that lets you take out the 40 Gig drive and put in a 300 Gig and record mucho hours of video. Oh yes, if interfaces nicely with your PC using DVArchive. You can use your LAN to capture the video and watch it from your PC. It also finds video shows and movies on the subjects you like.