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In an era when most cable and satellite TV companies will rent you a fully-functional HD digital video recorder for a few bucks a month, why spend $500 for a TiVo Premiere Elite (which also records high-def video)--plus $20 a month for the TiVo service? (Prices as of January 4, 2012.) TiVo provides four quick no-brainer reasons: tuners. It's the only DVR with four tuners, meaning it can simultaneously record up to four high-def programs--and with 2 terabytes of storage, it also provides plenty of room for all that content (up to 300 hours' worth of HD video, according to TiVo).