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Having said that, I'll post again instead of editing. The real value of the TiVo is in its software. If you subscribe, you get the program titles and schedule information, which is what makes the software useful.

TiVo users never have to think about the time of the recording. You just ask it to record all first-runs of "Enterprise" (geek alert) and it does it. If there are already shows scheduled for repeat taping, and your new request overlaps one of them, it'll ask whether you really want to tape "Enterprise" rather than "Trading Spaces" which the wife has requested. And then you can say "sure", and it goes and re-arranges its priorities all automatically.

And when "Enterprise" goes into re-runs, it'll stop taping them and start taping the "Trading Spaces" in that time slot instead.

That's what the subscription really buys you, arguments with the wife. No I mean it manages all the timing of all this recording, and when you finally sit down with the tube, at WHATEVER time, you watch WHATEVER the thing has caught for you.