Okay, I kinda forgot to get back to you (bloody cat kinda took over my brain!) but since I've had direcTV, I can say that the weirdest thing with it was getting used to the f'ing remote. :-> Their tifaux is very different from the dish one, but it might be more similar to what actual tivo was, I'm not sure.

Anyway, probably easiest thing to do is, if you get it and do the O.o thang, send me your phone number and I'll give you a call and walk you through it. :-) Believe you me, I needed that!!