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Understand the desire, though personally the Tivo UI works fine for me for what it does, e.g. recording TV shows and letting me watch them. I even think the UI for transferring shows between Tivos and to/from a computer are fine, and the automatic transcoding works well.

However, it ISN'T adequate for either VOD, or music playback, or picture viewing, or ... Personally I use an Apple TV for most of those things, which has a great UI and works well. I do however use the Tivo for Amazon On Demand stuff once in a while and its quite horrid. Scrolling slowly through text lists which aren't in any obvious order. For TV episodes, you typically have to have a laptop handy and go online to see what the title of the next episode is before you purchase, since none of that is shown to you and the episodes aren't in any particular order. Sucks.

What I would most like to see though would be a Tivo Series 4 with a number of improvements. Yes more than 2 "tuners" (video capture channels). A way to stream DRM-locked content from one Tivo to another that doesn't allow it to be transferred. Support for the Cable provider's On Demand offerings without requiring an external box. Support for Switched Digital Video channels, again without an external box. A better solution than Cable Card alone which the cable companies continue to screw up the installations on.

I also wouldn't mind if Tivo thought through a complete A/V remote solution for something like the iPad to allow you to use a soft keyboard etc when needed for entering show names etc. Or think about something like that Boxee remote with the keyboard on the back. Actually both of those would be nice (options). I still want my peanut remote by default though.

What I would *love* would be support for full web browsing on sites like Hulu. Can't even imagine that though.