I'm like everyone else. I want the most bang for the buck. I had a series 1 Tivo and loved it. It was getting very long in the tooth. Also my dislike of Comcast was growing (especially the high $$ for a lot of channels I don't care a wit about).

I decided to try DirecTV since it had:

1. Lower cost for a similiar number and selection of channels.

2. HD channels.

3. Tivo-like DVR.

#1 and #2 turned out to be true. But there is no way you can compare thier DVR to Tivo. It's inferior in every way. It has a very unintuitive menu system. It's software simply does not work in many areas (bugs they are...