No offense to all the Tivo fanboys out there, but it's not the competition that is causing its downfall. It is Tivo itself!!! It hasn't learned to adapt with the changing markets, and it's once innovation has turned into a lack of motivation. Now Tivo's only choice is to play reaction to the market as M$ and Apple join the mix. Not saying that these two companies can even pull it off!!! AppleTV is a glorified ipod and M$ is too worried about licensing that they have wasted years on the Media Center market! (realistically, who places a tower next to their TV, except for mouth breathing MySQL worshipers) The best solution out there was Meedio but they were bought by Yahoo! So, I say farewell Tivo. I don't think anyone will buy ya, at least not this year. My prediction is that Tivo will slowly dwindle into the halls of history only to be bought out by Dish Network at pennies on the dollar.