Her canned response so far seems to be that this is what the VCR is for.

My counter is that the VCR is of poor quality (both audio and visual), and has a limit of only small amount of shows which can be stored.

She says that more tapes can be purchased for a lot less than a Tivo.

And on it goes. I'd love a Tivo to baby-sit our DSS receiver, since that works pretty poorly with the VCR. I'd also like to get the network card for it so that I can store programs off-line on my file server. I'd like to finally be able to get all the Sopranos and Simpsons episodes automatically, without worrying what I'm recording over. I own their respective DVD collections released so far, but they don't release as fast as I watch them ;-)

I'd love to be able to sit down to watch TV, not see any commercials, and watch exactly what I feel like watching, start to finish. Wouldn't Tivo be the perfect solution to this?

But again, I'd be caving and fighting an uphill battle at the same time. I know she'd like it once we got it, but the pocket-book will never let me forget.

Greg