Now hopefully ya'll understand my angst when Tivo releases S3 that won't even support satellite with a separate receiver. When my S2 DTivos & standalones die (and thankfully not soon with 'upgrades') who knows where things will be, they will not be progressing to new gear or HD gear.

Easy oversight, but my 5960 has a USB port frontside that works dandy (yeah, i said dandy) with my 4GB Cruzer

Not that I care, but Toast 8 won't let you burn discs that contain DRM or other copy-protection... if that matters to you...

see Philips 5960, available for some time, $79

All,
Of course I know that DTV ended the partnership with Tivo. What I'm saying is that Tivo turned around and released a device, S3, that can only be used with cable tv. I was more than willing to buy a S3 and rent a directv receiver for it. I work for a NewsCorp sub-company and as such am required to have DirecTV because of the sports packages, NFL, etc. Canceling service would only hurt me and wouldn't change things at DirecTV. One thing I've learned about News/DirecTV and anything Mr. Murdoch owns is that it's about MONEY and not content, relationships or customer satisfaction.

Once again I'd like to publicly remind Tivo that they have abandoned DirecTV customers by releasing a box that won't even accept a signal from a satellite receiver.

Perhaps once John Malone and Liberty take over DirecTV a new partnership can be formed.

Tivo employees should buy them and resell them on ebay promising to give the money to whichever charity

i thought maybachs were nicer

Isn't that the price for one BD-R disc? More scrap for the piles at Best Buy and Circuit City (3" CDRs and CDRs that look like vinyl records)

First, let me see I'm not against this idea...

Second, if satradio wants to start transmitting video, then I think they should be subject to the same must-carry laws as satellite tv providers. That said, we should finally be able to put an end to HD-Radio and Sirius and XM can carry local stations as part of their normal digital offering. I'll probably embrace satradio this year, but it's time for them to start getting the same treatment from the FCC. As cool as satradio programming is, I'd still like to get my local stations (and their respective programming and jocks) at the same input point as everything else. One antenna to rule them all.