I bought my first series 2 from TiVo. It worked great for about 2 years and then died. The odyssey began there. I ended up going through 6 (yes six) refurbished units in one summer. I bought another one at Best Buy with the full replacement guarantee after that. When I got the 7th replacement from TiVo I installed my own bigger HD and imaged it with InstantCake and it's been fine since. Their support was horrible. Every time they would make me run through the entire diagnostic routine and I would get transferred up the chain (usually took about 2 hours of phone/hold time) to an "engineer" (not what I would call them) who could actually do the RMA. This crappy support is the main reason I didn't buy the HD unit when it came out. I'm waiting for it to get cheaper and then I'll just get it from Best Buy or someplace else with a full walk-in/walk-out replacement guarantee.

They haven't offered to make my penis any bigger yet.

I'm glad some people have the eggs to stand up and be counted. This garbage needs to stop. I didn't think much of it until the demos started appearing that require special Vileplanet codes. It's gone too far and I've shunned any such demos and games myself out of principle. Paying to see if you want to pay is laughable.

I tried viewing the Thunder Island stream a few times. Got different commercials a few times but never the featured content.