CircuitCity is offering 35 hour DirecTiVos for $99 with a $50 mail-in rebate. If you have DirecTV I can’t understand why you wouldn’t pick this up. I more or less forced Bri to buy one and I think he and his wife are 110% satisfied with theirs.
If you don’t know what a TiVo is, I don’t know how to explain it without making it seem like a VCR on steroids, but it literally changes the way you watch TV. For $50 you can go out to CircuitCity, pick it up and try it for 30 days, and I guarantee that you won’t return it. (via PVRblog)