Russell bought his first TiVo, welcome to the club! Of course, I feel that Russell is missing out on the "prefered" TiVo usage. First, DirectTV is the only way to fly. TiVo will actually record the satalite feed directly (since it is already compressed) meaning that your playback is at 100% quality. Second, for your primary TiVo I think you need at least 2 tuners and 80GB min hard drive (I have about 100GB on mine).

People that haven't used TiVo have a hard time understanding. When I got my HD sat reciever it took me about 30 minutes to remember how to watch live TV. My first thought - what are the chances of there being anything to watch on TV when *I* want to watch it? Something a TiVo user takes for granted is that TiVo puts the viewer in control of the TV schedule. I never have to "try to get home in time" for a show.