I have an HR10-250 with a recent upgraded HD that definitely needs a new HDMI card and looks like it needs a new motherboard (spontaneous reboots). Looks like $260 worth of parts. At the same time I find that those slimeballs at DTV are taking three HD channels away from us HR10 users in the next couple weeks - grrrrr. My dilemma: should I put $260 into a hardware model that is being made obsolete by DTV? If not, what should I do?

It seems my choices are:

• Spend the money and hang on with less channels until the new Tivo DTV DVR comes out
• Get one of the new DTV non-Tivo models - they are offering a cheap upgrade including antenna but the disk space available will not meet my baseball-season requirements!
• Bail on DTV and get a series 3 Tivo and Comcast service

I have used the new DTV DVRs and after a Tivo-based product am frankly not happy with the user interface and performance. Also, since DTV is coming out with a Tivo product later, I feel that money spent there is wasted. This means that if I do go this route it would have to be cheap.

Although I think DTV are slimeballs for obsoleting a unit I spent so much money on, I have always thought their customer service and support were good. Comcast on the other hand lied to me about the price of service for HD and DVR last time I tried them, and their support was abysmal - but if I went to them now I would go the Tivo Series 3 route and all I need from them hardware-wise is a cable card or two. That leaves figuring out how to minimize the monthly spend with them, which could possibly make the cost of the new Tivo box look small. In the long run I trust DTV more for the little stuff more than Comcast whom I feel has deceit and shoddy service in their DNA.

So, fellow Weaknees customers, anyone gone through this recently and if so, what advice do you have for me?

And are there any takers for a 500Gb upgrade drive with less than 200 hours on it?

Roger