LOL -- no I don't have one of these, great post. We have Tivo and like that a lot. Not much help -- but here are the questions I would have:
I noticed that the guide data for this unit is from Microsoft. I would search around and ask about experience with MS as a guide vendor. I wonder if it is accurate. I didn't know this was even a service MS offered.
The MS part does make me nervous -- I wonder when MS changes the guide format, will you be able to upgrade the DVR for the new format ? Does LG provide this service ?
Cool that it links with windows media edition -- that seems like a big plus to me. Rip DVD to mpeg4 and serve up all the kids movies they want to watch 10,000 times.
At $599, and no service fee the price seems right inline with competition. Tivo's HD DVR is supposed to be hitting the streets in a few months from what I gather. I'd expect shortly after that there will be a wave of HD DVRs.
My guess, is hang in there for a few months and just monitor the chatter on DVR forums for all the news (like tivocommunity.com).
My goal would be to at the $600 mark pickup an HD DVR, (maybe w/o the DVD burner and WME), or at least a 2 tuner DVR and skip the DVD burner.
