Initial experience with Netflix on TiVo was picture with no sound. Tried it a few days later at it worked fine. Watched The Fugitive without any issues. Pausing and resuming worked fine.

But, last night I was watching Wild Hogs and paused when phone rang. After that TiVo was locked up. Even the yellow light that usually flashes when I use the remote didn't work. Couldn't get off the screen with the movie paused. I had to unplug it. After rebooting it resumed the movie where I left off and played fine. I kept my fingers off of the Pause button.

After that I watched some You Tube and it worked fine - until I got a gray screen that said Retreiving Video Please Wait. After 10-12 minutes I got tired of waiting and hit the TiVo main button This caused the actual video to appear briefly and then I was back the home screen. Trying to go back in, I went to Video on Demand, then You Tube, then I go a gray screen that said Please Wait. And that was it - all locked up and had to unplug.

So, this is a cool feature but it's not worth trashing my TiVo for. How great is the risk of this? Lots of chatter on Tivo Forum about Netflix trashing heard drives.