Although I read about the use of Tivo with Voom, I never really gave it much of a shot since my Tivo is SD and I really want more glorious HD in my home. So, I have kept the Tivo connect to my cable TV in my bedroom and have Voom in my rooms where I have HDTVs. However, I recently finished my basement and bought a new Panasonic projector with 720p native resolution. Wanting to be able to time shift the concerts on Rave and some of the movies on Monsters, I dragged the Tivo down to the basement and hooked it up to the Voom box. After going through the Voom setup and setting the standard output to squeeze (THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART), I found that my HD recordings are at least as good as a well made DVD if I set the Tivo on "Best Quality", use the s-video feed into the Tivo and s-video into the projector- and by setting the PJ in widescreen mode, I get a full anamorphic widescreen image as well (no bars). Needless to say, I bought a new Tivo for the bedroom (40 hours/$79 after rebates) and the 240 hour version is permanently hooked to my Voom box until (if) the Voom DVR comes along. The best part is that I still get nearly 100 hours of recording time at the "best" setting which is far more than any HD DVR out there that I know of. The only downside is the lack of program info for local HD, but that can be done as well if you schedule it manually- about as hard as a VCR- and yes I can program a VCR!
