DirecTiVo

Another reason for a DirecTiVo -- it doesn't have the stupid IR blaster thing, which simply doesn't work reliably.

I apparently lost the whole prime time Olympics show on Friday evening. The one night I didn't check to make sure that it changed channels correctly. Mutter. You would think that TiVo, knowing that this is a problem, would just try to change the channel twice in succession at the beginning of a recording. I suppose that's something else I could do if I bothered to hack it.