best Direct TV HD receiver

Have you guys' discovered that you can't watch "Live T.V." anymore because of Tivo? I can't and won't. LONG LIVE TIVO!

I've used Sony HD-100 and 200 receivers with separate Sony TiVo units. The Sony TiVo units do not record HDTV. We found that given the choice of TiVo or HDTV, we opted for TiVo, and rarely used the HDTV feature of the receiver. Now we have the HR10-250. The picture quality and sound are superb -- just watch a Miami CSI production for dazzling HDTV and surround sound. The flexibility the HR10-250 to watch and record in either STV or HDTV is what we had hoped for. Our TiVo service with the HR10-250 is included by DirectTV; IIRC we paid $10 a month when we used the Sony TiVo units.

I do think setting up recording and manipulation of season passes were quicker with the Sonys than with HR10-250, but I keep something to read by my chair, so the time spent crunching doesn't bother me.

Bottom line: From what I've seen, the HR10-250 is the best DirectTV receiver, but understand we place great value on TiVo.

db

again thanks to everyone for your help.

I have another issue:

I bought the Hughes HR10-250 Tivo Direct TV receiver and can not make it go into the 720 resolution mode with my Panasonic Tao HD TV thru a component hookup. 480i and 480p and 1020 work fine and I can get HD OTA but can not get the 720.
I was hoping to get 720 and maybe it would be a bigger picture than the 1080 which is very small with the bars on top and sides (sometimes) when viewing the networks and yes I have played with the ratio button on my remote to change this.

Anyway, does anyone have experience or advice to help me get the 720 to work?

any info appreciated,

Phil