I love my TiVo and I've had a series 1 version for about 3 or 4 years now. At that point I think the biggest capacity one they offered was 40 hours, but now they have much larger ones straight from the factory. I actually ended up hacking mine though, and put in a second hard drive so I have about 160 basic hours down to 45 hours for best. I generally just leave it at high, but never really had an issues with medium either except for some pixalation on fast moving videos or sports once in a while. Since I have a separate dvd player/burning I can just route a second output straight into that, but I think some people enjoy the all-in-one version available.

I've never had a problem with my remote, well except after the 10,000 fall the case finally cracked open. It still works even after all that so I have no complaints. Depending on what you want www.weaknees.com may have something you like. They offer pre-hacked TiVos as well and plain hard drives if you'd rather do it yourself.