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Bye, Bye, Tivo
Won't give you the features you want so bye, bye TiVo? Because they won't let you burn to a CDRW?
One DVD-RW is $5 for crying out loud. If you are going to erase it anyway, what is the difference? And, why would you need an R/W anyway, you have a TiVo that the program is on to begin with!

When you buy a TiVo, you have an option for service...$300 (equiv to 2 years programming) or $13 a month. When you buy a lifetime package, you know it is lifetime for THAT box. Just because they come out with something new, doesn't mean you should be able to transfer that fee to a new box.

Seems to me that you want something for nothing...you have no legitimate gripes about TiVo.

I'll bet ANYTHING that your PVR-250 box, all in all, costs more than a Humax DVD-R box with lifetime sub.
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Why not use a whitebox?  worknman | 11/11/04
Why not use a whitebox?  Loverock Davidson | 11/11/04
What major drawback ??  Ludovit | 11/11/04
LOL! VCR?  cgentry@... | 11/12/04
Because of the very high investment one may have.  The King's Servant | 11/12/04
The computer will not play VCR tapes either.  timoute | 11/15/04
lol  SantiagoCrespo | 01/05/05
I love my Tivo  JasonL31 | 11/14/04
How about price?  timoute | 11/15/04
Building your own HTPC..  Patrick Jones | 11/11/04
MS Media Center Retail costs more than a TiVo  timoute | 11/15/04
Re: Why not use a whitebox  alterego_z | 11/11/04
It's THEIR box. THEY paid for it.  BitTwiddler | 11/11/04
Hear, hear!  d_jedi | 11/11/04
And ALLLLLLLLLL this is what Microsoft wants to take away.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 11/11/04
But linux does it too!  Loverock Davidson | 11/11/04
Only applicable to Tivo, not Linux.  B.O.F.H. | 11/11/04
Red Hat supports non Red Hat distro's???  GregSalts | 11/11/04
It is only applicable to Tivo (in this case)  B.O.F.H. | 11/11/04
How the heck did this turn into an MS/Linux Gripe Session?  el1jones | 11/11/04
What? You expected it to stay on topic?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/11/04
What? They cover your laptop happy (NT)  The King's Servant | 11/12/04
Re: Red Hat supports non Red Hat distro's???  richdave | 11/11/04
Big difference  Michael Kelly | 11/11/04
big question  seosamh_z | 11/11/04
Has nothing to do with Bush  DarthRidiculous | 11/11/04
You're right and you're wrong  seosamh_z | 11/11/04
Give it a rest or just shut up  BFD | 11/12/04
Microsoft is dropping ball with thier Media Center  voska | 11/12/04
Depends on what's in your EC.  The King's Servant | 11/12/04
re : My #1 beef with ANY company who takes away my right to tinker.  JasonL31 | 11/14/04
Those features cost  rpmyers1 | 11/11/04
This story is *so* out of date.  gordon@... | 11/11/04
Bye, Bye, Tivo  cgentry@... | 11/12/04
so true  JasonL31 | 11/14/04
The easy route  gsteele531@... | 11/12/04
That's a lot of wine  voska | 11/12/04
I have an even more elegant idea.  Robertbrice | 11/14/04
I want to be able to add a usb hard drive to mine  JasonL31 | 11/14/04
Well, another TiVo Stooge gets it wrong.  lowrezz | 11/15/04

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