I'd hurry up and get one. The Tivo-DirectTV partnership is ending soon, and then you'll only be able to get a DirectTV DVR which will probably just be like the crappy cable company DVRs.

DirectTivo's will continue to work as normal, just no more will be made.

Just don't get the HD version, which will soon be deprecated, from what I understand, after D* switches to MPEG-4.

What few TV shows I watch -- Lost, Veronica Mars, and Deadwood -- I watch more-or-less live. Deadwood I might start a minute or two late so I can skip past the opening credits. Veronica Mars gets more of a buffer so I can skip past commercials. My cable provider doesn't carry the local ABC affiliate in HD, so I have to watch that one live over-the-air. (I'd do the same for Veronica Mars, but the UPN affiliate 'round these parts hasn't gone HD yet.)

I use my DVR almost exclusively to timeshift high-definition movies, not TV shows.

There's plenty of talk from well-placed sources that DirecTV will swap out the HDTiVo for their new mpeg-4 HDDVR at either a low price or free. At last count, there were only around 500,000 HDTiVo users.

I think the partnership is good through 2007. Humax will be making the new DVRs - D* still haven't said what DVR software they will be using - it could be Tivo. Humax has a license to use Tivo software in their boxes. I'll just have to wait and see. If I have to purchase one this summer finally - darn.

In a normal week, I watch probably 7-9 hours live, 'Replay' 7 hours, HD DVR 4+ hours, and BT 1 hour.

Since my HD DVR now has dual tuner capabilities I could in theory consolidate it with the Replay, but I prefer the Replay interface, and every once and a while the HD DVR has a brain fart and doesn't record. Now if my Cable company would add the rest of the local HD stations I would switch to the HD DVR for all recorded network shows. Then I could use the replay for a back-up, or the occasional cluster when I have to work and want to record 3 shows at the same time.

Life has gotten easier since we got the two tuner HD cable box with built in DVR.
Although we mostly watch junk or throw away shows like According To Jim, Joey, and Everybody Loves Raymond types live and DVR the CSI's, L&O's, Lost, etc. for later viewing without commercials.

Since we take a week or more to get to lots of these shows, I can rarely take part in current show discussions here.

live TV, never record.

No tv whatsoever. Don't have an anternna or cable. We are 100% DVD. (we have a TON of TV on DVD, though).

I still watch all of my TV live. The DVR is reserved for conflicting programming, unannoucned interruptions, and when I'm not at home.

LOL at "Live" TV refering to the actual broadcast time.

Don't have TiVo and have no intentions on getting it.

Watch most TV as it comes from the broadcast or cable signal. Watch some stuff on VCR due to time of broadcast vs. time I can sit my but down to watch TV.

I have thought about getting a DVR to transfer VHS copies of stuff that will never be on DVD (The Original versions of the Star Wars movies come to mind) and some of the "home made" tapes of some of the community theatre shows I've worked on.

Many nights I just tune my TV to the Sci-fi Channel, and switch between that and CNN Headline News and use that as background while I check email and surf the web on my laptop. Occasionally I look up from the laptop like that caveman in the "It's so simple even a caveman can operate it" (or do it, or use it) commercial for ?Comcast? Gieco? That's real condecending