No, this is not a post about how to land a job, market yourself, or do anything techie.

It's about Tivo.

I got a Tivo for Christmas many years ago. I promptly paid for the Lifetime Service and enjoyed the best television had to offer for a long time.

Then the hard drive died. It happens. Hard drives are commodity hardware and they're really not made to last more than a few years.

So I bought an upgraded hard drive that took my capacity from 40 hours to 200 hours. Good call.

Two years later, what happened? The power supply died.

I'm thinking that now I should just break down and buy a new one. I don't really need HD (I haven't ponied up the $$$ for a quality high def TV and all the other stuff I'd feel compelled to buy with it – Blu Ray, the latest and greatest AV receiver, new surround system, blah blah blah), but I'd like the new tuning capabilities of the newest Tivo, the Premier.

I got a little miffed when television signals switched from analog to all-digital. It knocked out my Series 2 Tivo, and neither Tivo nor Comcast offered a good solution. So I settled for the ONLY solution, a crummy little tuner box from Comcast that sits atop my current (non-working) Tivo. Changing channels had been painfully slow.

Plus, I really hate the Comcast (made by Motorola) cable box I have now. It has a lot of capacity, but it's just not a Tivo. And I won't buy anything from AT&T.

I'd say this many years out of a Tivo is pretty good. I think I'm going to give their Premier a try.