Google and Tivo have become closer recently and I think it makes perfect sense. Google could reinvigorate the brand. Tivo is the pioneer and I believe they do what they do better than anyone else. While I haven't had experience with cable company DVR offerings, I have had experience with DirecTv's DVR (I started out with the DirecTv-Tivo box/service but had to switch when the box quit) and it was so bad I switched back to Tivo after a couple of months. The Tivo 3 year plan averages out to only a couple of dollars more than DirecTv's monthly DVR fee and now I have a networked box I can access Internet and home content with. Tivo already has a connection with Google's Picassa (nice for family photo slideshows) and they recently announced plans to access YouTube content. Yeh, makes a lot of sense to me. Go for it!