TIVO owners survey...Class Project Please Help

[Eagler]

When did you purchase TIVO?
05/02 <- work perk, gotta keep an eye on the competition

How often do you use it?
almost Daily

What are the advantages of TIVO?
I watch what I want when I want.  I don't watch commercials.  I don't miss much on Discovery Wings. Between the tivo and the VCR we don't miss anything, unless I screw up. Dub shows down to vcr to play on br tv/vcr while on tread mill.

What are the disadvantages of TIVO?
None whatsoever.  I watch TV for less time each day but I see more shows/movies/sporting events that I want to watch.

(thx for the template funkedup )

[Pfunk]

Again guys thanks so much for the input, you made this assignment very simple for me to do.  One question however, so you can store up to 60hrs on one unit, do the units have an output that allows you to transfer what you have stored to say a VHS tape or for that matter does it allow you to burn what you have recorded on a DVD of CD?

[funkedup]

They sell them with up to 80 hours recording time.
You can upgrade and add hard drives to expand recording time.
Any standard IDE drive will work.  You get (roughly) 1 hour per GB of drive space.  I run a 120 GB drive in mine.  I think people have gone as high as 400 GB.

It has a feature to save programming to video tape.  There are multiple outputs you can connect a VCR to.

Lots of TiVo nerds here:  http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/

[Skuzzy]

My PVR has S-VHS outputs,..connect to whatever and record/burn away.   Like funk said, the disks are standard IDE drives.  Want more, just replace it.
If you can connect it to your TV, then you can record it.