I had a very pleasant surprise this weekend. I bought my wife a new dvd recorder that had digital tuners as well as qam for digital cable. We have the most basic of cable packages that runs us $10 a month. I was amazed when I hooked up the cable to the recorder the tuner pulled in 30+ digital channels including abchd, cbshd, nbchd, our 3 local pbshd stations, and many more. The quality is superb and that $10 sure seems like a bargain now.
Replace cable box with Tivo
It is my understanding that Tivo can replace the cable company's box with the use of two cable cards that must be provided by the cable company. Also I was told that the Tivo unit would provide HD viewing of those programs provided in HD by the cable company. Does anyone know if this is true? I appreciate any input anyone can provide.