Help with cutting the cable?

[Pobeka]

10. Yep, a menu system.

Other things:

Records multiple programs simultaneously that are being broadcast.

Many shows encode commercials somehow, and you can literally hit a button to skip over all commercials in a break and go right back to the show.

You just plug the antenna into the Tivo, and connect the Tivo to the flatscreen with DVD cable.

It is actually a "headless" computer. I did have to replace the fan in it to a higher quality fan (original was too loud, there was a "google-able" solution), but it was super simple. Newer models may be using better fans. Ours is about 10 years old now. Really does work quite well for us. But we also don't care about ESPN, that would be something you'd need to check out and see if the model of Tivo you look at would support it separately. I have no idea.