OCT.....you got me going so here it is:

I have two TIVO units with the lifetime FREE subscription. If you dont have the lifetime subscription, you have to pay something like $13 a month.

HOWEVER, the %#*$&@))$ cable jerks screwed up the system (on purpose) when they went to the digital scheme......you cannot use many (most) of the TIVO features since their digital "converter box" and the TIVO both have tuners in them. Only the first tuner in line can work.....if the primary (first) tuner tunes to channel 11, the downstream feed only gets channel 11......and their digital box has to be first since the signal is encrypted upstream and TIVO cannot decode it.

There is a way to rig the TIVO so that it changes the channel in the digital cable scam box but I have not done it yet....it takes and IR Blaster to simulate the remote control signal.

In any event the cable #$*)@)*% people eliminated the dual screen mode from TIVO's features. OF course, the @#$)@*%)* cable jerks sell their version of TIVO at some highway robbery price....with a crummy remote and fewer features. CABLE SUCKS.

Do you want my opinion of cable? I have two TIVO boxes that are useless in our area.

mike in tucson