New TiVo unit competition heats up

After a recent lull in the latest releases of Tivo/DVD-R combo units, the VCR-replacement market is gearing up for a bigger, better, cheaper year. A few units have come out that fit the Tivo/DVD burner mold, but they tended to be prohibitively expensive or used interfaces that were so crappy they weren't worth the time spent plugging them in. A few new units are due out this year, both from TiVo as well as Humax. Expect these new systems to have giant hard drives, fully-functional TiVo interfaces, and import/export technology like Firewire for camcorders and maybe even archiving. In the meantime, TiVo is all set to offer TiVo To Go, a networking solution that allows TiVo users to backup programming to a networked computer