As a guy living in Comcast + Motorola country, I was pretty surprised to learn that Scientific Atlanta 8300HD DVRs (running SARA) support external drives. I’m only two years behind in the news, but being able to upgrade a stock cableco box is pretty exciting. I could see myself putting up with an inferior interface for additional low-cost storage…. Another reason TiVo needs to activate that Series3 eSATA port ASAP.
Disclosure: Weaknees is a ZNF advertiser, though they did not turn me on to this story or provide any input.