Here are some more reasons why I love my TiVo, besides the usual fact that it records what you want it to do:

-It does not say it's going to record something, and then decide not to record it a day or an hour or to before it's supposed to record because "something came up."

-It does not talk you into possibly recording something, and then when you say 'hey, let's record it!" it actually does and doesn't jus disappear and not be heard from on the subject again.

-When you tell it to record something, it does not say "we'll see" and then hem and haw for a couple of days before deciding whether or not to record it.

-And most importantly, Tivo does not say it loves recording stuff for you and that you have the best "Season Pass" list, but then a day or two before recording something big, tell you that it's really sorry, but it found somebody else's season pass list to record.