TV without tivo is annoying, i wonder if it got as much recognition as itunes did
my s1 tivo is a bit slow, the menus are really slow and it takes for ever to work out "complicated" scheduling, partly because of the larger drives. i don't know if they upgraded the cpus in the s2.,dtvs etc i sure hope they did.
i've been wanting to get a new one, but im waiting for the DTV dual tuner, with hdtv support, networking and hackable, i'm not aware of such a beast yet.
I do like the idea of rolling your own though since theres a lot of really annoying things missing in tivos software.