Of possible interest to my TiVoLess friends

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TiVo is having a sale, only for the next couple of days, where they will buy you a low-end box if you prepay for a year's worth of service from them.

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I've never completely understood this (probably since I don't have a TiVo, or even cable), but is it true that the service you're paying for is basically just scheduling? If you knew what was playing when, you could just plug your cable into your own computer and pull together some software to record whatever at whatever times, right? Is the scheduling why you pay for TiVo? Is there any other reason not to use something like Freevo?