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It is a good DVR. It took a few hours to get used to the user interface, but this was not due so much as Tivo having a bad interface, but it was because it was so different than the Comcast Motorola box that the Tivo replaced. Now that I am used to the UI, I don't know why I did not get one sooner as it is so much better than the Comcast Motorola DVD. Not only that, I suspect it uses a whole lot less power because it is so much cooler to the touch - all in all a big win over my old box. Reading the power consumption stats on the back, the Tivo box uses about 1/4 the power. I like the way it groups recorded shows and the Season Pass concept where you can subscribe to a season. Its find feature is far superior to that of the Comcast Motorola DVR and. The show directory also beats Comcast's offerings hands down - more detail. It does a much better job of not recording 'old' shows than the Comcast DVR even though told the Motorola box to not record old stuff, it did anyway.

Be careful when putting a Tivo product on a Comcast cable. There are a lot of terrible service people at Comcast who don't have a clue. The setup was excrutiatingly painful requiring two trips to a distant Comcast store and much time on the phone. Eventually a Comcast service person came to my house and he had a heck of time getting someone on the phone that knew what they were doing. He did solve the problem. In one case I was told that it was impossible to put a Tivo box on a Comcast cable, but the Comcast employee was dead wrong.

I would have given the Tivo 5 stars if the remote had a back light. It is a dark colored remote and it is worthless in a dark room - no way to see it without turning on an external light source.