A few months back I got a DVR through my cable company. So far I love it, can record two different shows at the same time, can watch one while recording another. It's odd to begin watching an hour long show 15 minutes after it has started and end up at real time by the end of the show since you can zip right through the commercials. These things are how recording should be done, at least for convenience sake. Picture quality suffers some but I don't think it's to bad.