Tivo: Is Newest the Best-est?

Tivo has announced their newest devices, somehow managing to miss lots of essentials but still managing to keep their business model just above the limit of irrelevancy. The screen menus have gone HD, which they should have been a long time ago. They’ve included a disk space meter, another no-brainer. The menus themselves are organized much better to allow users to speed right to what they need. The Tivo accepts a CableCard, allowing menus to include a picture-in-picture of the current channel while you’re looking at a menu. They’ve retained the fee-based structure, come up with an optional Bluetooth remote with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, left off built-in WiFi and they’re charging lots for the difference between the two models, one with a 320 Gb drive and the other a 1 Tb—why in the world don’t they just make 1 Tb models to start with? Overall, this latest update simply takes Tivo to where it should be, not beyond. And if you’re pushing technology these days, what you introduce today better be what people want tomorrow, not what they should have had last year. Now, are they going to let me transfer my lifetime membership from a Series 3?