You conveniently can’t cancel your Tivo subscription over the web even though they are more than happy to allow you to sign up that way. After going through the annoying voice recognition phone system (how is saying “cancel service” easier than just pressing the “1″ button?), a friendly woman asked why I would ever want to cancel Tivo. An obvious question to ask someone, but then she asked what I planned to do with the Tivo, which I couldn’t figure out.

Tivo had a funeral for the VCR in NYC this past weekend. If it had been in Boston, I would have shown up with my DirecTivo and 40 Hour Standalone Tivo and smashed them on the ground or something dramatic like that. Instead I’ll use them as space heaters around the house.

The Beyond TV setup is working quite nicely. I’m just hoping version 4 comes out soon with it’s promise of DivX support.