As you all know, I love my personal video recorder (PVR), and wouldn’t be without one. While I myself have a ReplayTV, it just happens to be what we ended up with, and I would be equally happy with the functions offered by a Tivo. In fact, most of our friends have Tivos, and just rave about them.

Tivo has been most recently mentioned here for offering Internet downloads of indie movies and television shows before they even air on regular television, and for their superlative ability to skip commercials.

And if you’ve been thinking of getting a Tivo (or a second or third Tivo!) now’s the time!

Tivo is running a rebate program right now through which they will send you a $150.00 rebate for purchase of a brand new Series2 Tivo.

Now, as it happens, Amazon is also offering a qualifying Series2 40-hour Tivo for $99.00. Yes, you read that right, $99.00. In other words, the rebate is greater than the purchase price.

This seems too good to be true, and so I called Tivo customer service, and asked them whether purchasing a Tivo for less than the rebate would still qualify for the rebate, and they advised me that yes…

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