TiVo has announced a "reference design" for an HD-TiVo, and they've also announced a "joint development" with DirecTV. Both will be able to record off-the-air HDTV signals. The DirecTV one will also be able to record satellite signals. One interesting question is how many streams you'll be able to record at one time. Another even more interesting question is how much money you'll have to pay for these things (and when they'll ship).

The zillion dollar question is how far the convergence is going to go. Will I be able to buy a box this year (or next) that has the hard disk, a network connection, an OTA tuner, and a satellite tuner, which can play music, show pictures, delay TV, view and burn DVDs, and more? One box. One integrated GUI. If I had to guess, I'd say you might start seeing truly all-in-one boxes by Christmas '04. That gives Moore's Law time to cut prices another factor of two, and it gives the software guys time to make it all actually work.