I'm pretty glad I just bought a Toshiba :) That said, I concur with the experience I've had with HP - bought my mom one a few years ago and despite barely being used (and gently when used) the screen has suffered that nasty, intermittent blanking problem so well documented for certain HP models.

I'll continue to steer clear of them 'til they prove they can do better.

I'm never able to get much better than 10-12Mibps on a clean, low-use 100Mibps switched LAN. My PC is clearly able to do higher rates (to my UNIX box) so that's not the bottleneck. Mike-engadget mentions hard-drive bottlenecks, but even a 5400 RPM IDE drive can beat those rates and they don't vary significantly between zero, one or 2 simultaneous recordings. TiVo to TiVo is about the same as TiVo-PC so my money's on the Network interface or more importantly, the CPU's ability to stuff/clear the buffers.

Hopefully, this is ultimately a driver issue and TiVo just haven't bothered tweaking the driver/kernel 'cos the transfer rate *is* good enough to keep you ahead of ad breaks etc as described, but it sure is a pain when transferring to my PC in order to xcode to a portable device as the xfer time is by far the long tail. My xcode spreads neatly across all 4 cores and really pins them, so a 2hr show only takes about 20min to xcode, but pretty much 90 minutes to xfer.

Almost stolen straight from the drawing! Ah, what memories this brings back!

OK, which joker came up with the 1024 (2^10) price tag :)

I'm still not sure why they refuse to change the colour of the digits on the keypad; it makes dialling numbers quite a bit more tricky.

360 reasons why I want it:
1) OK, that's enough :)

Why? Mine sits in the dark in a 19" rack in my basement....

Looks like an Espresso machine

Hot Stuff - it's going to be 100F in Seattle today.

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