I was afraid of this - because the video-on-demand rental feature is their ongoing revenue stream, they are pushing this to the exclusion of all the other features. This also gives rise to the FUD when they insist you MUST have Telecom broadband to use Tivo (you only need telecom if you want the on-demand, of course). I hope TivoNZ doesnt suffer from the abysmal marketing that killed of S1 Tivos in the UK (although I hear that they are trying again in the UK with S3 Tivos and cable TV support next year)