What they said, pretty much - TiVo captures everything that comes in through the antenna. Hulu (and iTunes and the rest of the Internet) fills the gaps left by cable TV, and Netflix is for movies and random older stuff.

Jess, did you guys switch to the digital antenna yet?

Yep, just a few days ago. The HD picture quality is much better than what we were getting over cable. It remains to be seen how much I'm going to miss TDS & Colbert delivered automatically vs having to hook the laptop up to the TV.

I wish we could get TV by antenna, damn it. We have to pay $25 for DISH and then an extra $5 to get the "over the air" channels, otherwise we get nothing at all.

Does Tivo pick up the antenna channels? Sorry for my stupid questions! It's great to hear about the picture quality!

I don't do Netflix, and only tend to Hulu when I miss something...but I mostly watch OTA shows. er, not that I don't have cable (I watch stuff on cable as background noise mostly, but it's not "must TiVo"). I know you've got a lifetime subscription on your TiVo, but I've been quite happy with my new one (which is the old HD one, not the fancy new one...but same dif). I got cable cards for it, and the HD is nice and so is being able to record two shows at once (my old TiVo was the DVD kind...not being able to burn DVDs anymore is sad, but I never did it THAT often)

edit: I know my old TiVo you could attach an antenna, I'm not sure about the new one...

Yeah, meara, my thought is that I can move the old Tivo into the bedroom, and use the feature that allows me to share Tivo'd shows between Tivos (through wi-fi). I've also thought about selling the old one (and its lifetime sub) and using that $ towards the new Tivo. I am so conflicted, though, because I truly don't watch that much tv outside of sports.

my thought is that I can move the old Tivo into the bedroom, and use the feature that allows me to share Tivo'd shows between Tivos (through wi-fi).

Yeah, I contemplated that, but decided I really didn't need it (and especially didn't need the twice as expensive monthly tivo bill...which you wouldn't have)

Does Tivo pick up the antenna channels?

Yes, I just have the antenna plugged into the Tivo and HDMI out to the TV. (Mine is a Series 3 HD, one or two generations older than the Premiere, and has two coax jacks in the back. One says "antenna" and the other says "cable.")

This is all reminding me that I need to mail my cablecard back to Cablevision this week.

I don't ever watch sports, but I'm guessing people who do mostly watch them live? So a Tivo's primary function (time-shifting) wouldn't be as useful? OTOH, good for DIY instant replays and bathroom breaks.

I discovered today that my TV has a third HDMI port I'd forgotten about! So if I find a good deal on a Mac Mini I can use that instead of the DVI input that my laptop's using now.

OTOH, good for DIY instant replays and bathroom breaks.

Critical for that. But yeah, the timeshifting not really a factor.