The HD Tivo has arrived and it's $800. Hmm. Yet another roadblock in the long list of roadblocks to getting HD in our house. You'll also need at least one CableCARD -- two if you want to record two shows at once. Apparently, you rent these things from the cable company at $1.50 to $3.00 per CableCARD. The CableCARD also provides the great convenience of copy protection. (Ya, that's sarcasm.) This means the networks can decide what you can and cannot record. Tivo is also doing us the great favor of allowing us to transfer a product lifetime service from an old Tivo to the new Tivo for $200. Uh, didn't we already pay almost $300 for the lifetime service to begin with? Tivo wants an extra $200 to transfer it to a new box?! Add to this all the complications, costs, and copy protection issues of getting real HD content on an HDTV to begin with and it feels like electronics manufacturers are trying as hard as possible to make HD fail. Seriously, it's going to be a very long time before HD becomes in the norm in regular households. Most likely, after all the copy protection and encryption nonsense fail and go away.