It seems that many others having been doing the same for a long time.

Just call Rogers' customer service and tell them that this is what Bell is offering you if you switch…and Rogers will match it!!

To each our own when it comes to what we wanta pay for a service/product: it's all about what you personally get out of it…

Oh and forget about USB ports or any other port on the Rogers PVR designed to let me transfer my recordings to an I-Pod or PSP. No portability. So you spend 599.00 (or rent for a ridiculous 24.95/mo) on the box which only works with Rogers, and they restrict how you use it.

I am happy that TiVo is coming to Canada. Not necessarily because I will subscribe but because maybe it will force Rogers to smarten up and allow me to use my HD-PVR the way it was designed to be used.

While paying almost 200.00 a month for service, equipment rentals etc, I expect the best picture possible, and the option to make portable, the recordings of shows I pay to watch.

Personally I am not sure what took TiVo so long, but what bothers me most is that Canadians are always getting the shaft on technology, especially from our own service providers.

Say you get into a conversation, with a friend about a show, while you're at work. Can you go on your cable company's website and schedule a recording? Nope. With TiVo you can and it works.

The Rogers PVR doesn't even have the most basic functionality! You can't even search by show title to schedule a recording! You have to scroll through days of the TV guide info to find the show first and then schedule it. How can they sell something without that? It's like selling a book without a table of contents, index or page numbers. With my TiVo I can search by title, actor, or keyword. It let's you specify category and whether to record a first run only or reruns as well. Let's say you want to record talk show appearances with Julia Louis Dreyfus 'cause you like her new show, but don't want it to record the fifty Seinfeld episodes that air each day. You can tell it to record by her name and specify talk shows only. Or just record movies she's in that air on any channel.

I'm a fan of architecture, so I have 'architect*' in my Wishlists and with that asterix at the end of the word, it'll record and shows with variations of the word: architects, architecture, etc. I've gotten to see some really cool shows that aired, that I would have never known were on. I'm getting the most out of my cable.

Someone commented that they cause cable prices to go up 'cause people are fast-forwarding commercials. Rubbish! TV networks got greedy and fell behind the times. A one hour time slot is only 45 minutes of programming now. Shows used to be longer, remember? People are tired of the excess of ads and we have no obligation to watch them. TV is changing and it's inevitable. I am tired of having to remember when a show is airing. Now that I can set the Season Pass in my TiVo, there's no more frustration when a show airs an hour earlier or is preempted or the station moves it to another night.

TiVo is constantly adding new features. In the past year, they've added 'Kidzone' software so that kids can have their own, moderated by parents, Now Playing list of shows. There is a new search feature and lots of TiVo Cast videos that download weekly. I love the extra content from the NYTimes and CNet. Once I posted on TiVo's forums 'cause a third-party wireless adapter I had bought wasn't working. One of TiVo's programmers contacted me and asked me to send them the adapter for testing and they incorporated it into the new software update they were working on. It didn't work when I bought it, but now it does. He even mailed it back with some TiVo swag. Who else would do that?

I like gadgets and have bought an awful lot of stuff and there are few things I've bought and enjoyed as much. I watch tv when I feel like it, rather than surf to find something on. It's way more efficient. I bought everyone in my family one and one for my best friend. My mother recently told me that her TiVo started recording the new seasons of her favorite shows as they started to air and she didn't have to re-enter them. Of course she didn't 'cause that just makes sense!

I'd rather have a standard-definition TiVo, even though it's not HD on my HD TV, instead of using any of the Rogers HD boxes, even if they were free. You can't understand by reading an article, so when displays are in stores, try it out for yourself and decide.