Yes, TIVO is great...we started with one and now have 5 (in fact there could be more that I do not know about) and most of them are dual tuner so it always you to TIVO even more programs...we have DIRECTV but a friend of our uses cable and can not seem to watch one program and record another...eventually my husband is going to go there and look at it...it could be that her television is old (she is not into electronics)...