Good deal on an HD Tivo [and now a 50" Plasma TV!!]

[Ghoulish Delight]

We've spent the last 4 or 5 year using ReplayTV and TiVo. Between those two it's a tossup (I love them both), but for anyone who is used to the functionality and responsiveness of either of those, the Scientific Atlanta Explorer that Time Warner provides is like something from the stone ages. Even discounting the flat-out bugs (like the audio dropping out every so often, requiring either changing channels or power cycle to restore) it's abismal. From painfully slow response time to arcane menu structure to seriously sub-par search and subscription options.

It's definitely a case of "yuppie angst" as my dad would call it, but having been spoiled for so many years by the best in the business, it would pain me to pay for something so decidedly inferior.