I'm carefully watching what DirecTV does as things unfold. I am interested in getting my locals via DirecTV, as the local HD broadcast towers are just at the edge of my reception range, and I get some dropout during some weather conditions.

I really like the DirecTV HD TiVo. Yes the menu's are a bit slow, but I can live with it. It's still prefer it to any other DVR I've seen.

When DirecTV comes out with their new HD DVR, I'll be weighing my options carefully. The options by then should include, moving to cable, and buying a HD TiVo unit from TiVo. (It will likely support the home networking options, etc... all the stuff that DirecTV could have supported, except they just don't care about users.)

Since the new TiVo is supposed to support 2 single stream cable cards, or a multi-stream cable card, the TiVo may be the most powerful option. And it even sounds like TiVo intends to price the units very competitively.