if you switch to DirecTV, get one of the Tivo-ized receivers. You won't regret it. (Well, until your wife and kids have filled the damn thing up leaving you with 45 minutes to record whatever you want to watch. But I'm sure you can deal with that.)
What he is talking about is a direct tv recever box with a hard drive built in , ours can hold 30 hours of video , you can ( and we WILL eventualy) add a second bigger hard drive that will give you an additional 120 hrs ????
I have a few flicks that just LIVE on my tivo drive . Nice to just be able to pull them up at any time