Greetings Buzztown, I’ve been a TiVo owner for 7 years. I’ve had to replace the hard drive because it wore out. I have one of the few Toshiba TiVo units with a Build-In DVD Writer. I’ve also had a Windows Media Center for two years. Windows MCE offers for FREE what TiVo charges a monthly fee for. Plus, with dvrmstools installed, the commercials are skipped automatically. I can burn any recorded program to DVD, or convert it to play on my iPod. There are Boxee and Hulu plugins as well. Plus I get Full 1080p HD channels at no additional cost with the MCE system. Why buy or upgrade a TiVo now?