I believe starting this month Directv will have both UPN and the WB.

I've been telling myself for two years that I was keeping my basic cable, quietly waiting for just exactly this to occur. Now it has. Sh!t.

Okay, here's the dilemma. I've played with these DirecTiVo boxes before. They rock. But... I have a VCR with built-in "Commercial Advance". It's not perfect, but it's amazingly good. The same sort of technology is in the ReplayTV 4000, and I'd love to have it again. But, I find the idea of saving the raw satellite digital bits far more attractive. But, on the other hand, the ReplayTV 4000 has all these other whizzy features that would be particularly whizzy if I had friends who also had ReplayTV 4000's...

On the other other hand, the DirecTiVo is pretty damn cheap.

On the other^3 hand, my new TV is HDTV-ready (a snazzy 43" Hitachi), and it would be nice to have hi-def input, which the DirecTiVo can't output.


Help!