Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[atmaspheric | endeavors] MCE vs. TiVo??: Thomas immediately brings up many of the advanced features power users enjoy from a richer platform like MCE which Tivo does not even try to deal with from a feature perspective. Sure you can network your Tivo, and add additional features to it, but this is beyond the main base purpose and I believe well beyond the capabilities of most owners. 

 [TiVoBlog.com] TiVo Vs. Windows MCE (Media Center Edition) For The Average Budget Minded Consumer: TiVo Vs. Windows MCE (Media Center Edition) For The Average Budget Minded Consumer October 28th..., everybody should have a full-blown PC in their living room right?

[atmaspheric | endeavors] Is it really the picture?: When I recently attended the Digital Life show in NYC, I stopped by the Microsoft booth and played with an MCE device, presumedly the latest. Switching between screens / modes required far too much wait time, with loading icons… 

[Om Malik’s Broadband Blog] Microsoft Media Center Vs Apple FrontRow: Lack of HDTV made it uninteresting against the likes of TiVo but then MS had downloadable movies (none of which were interesting though) so I turned my MCE box into a Linux box running MythTV which supports HDTV and haven’t looked back. However I do use my TiVo for non-HDTV content.

[Pvrblog.com] PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: A TiVo customer noticessomething strange, posts about it online, and eventually other usersgather and share complaints -- but those complaints are usually metwith silence from TiVo HQ or you might hear a soundbite from a newsstory. With a new official company blog, I think TiVo could do a lot ofgood for the company by having an open and honest communication channelwith customers -- many potential problems could have been nipped in thebud with a few carefully worded statements at the right time.

 [Tivoblog.com] TiVoBlog.com: That being said, I would like to dedicate the rest of this post to compare the cost of a TiVo to the cost of an average MCE box. After all, most consumers don’t want to pay out the wazoo just to record their favorite TV shows and watch them at another time.

 [Edbott.com] Ed Bott's Windows Expertise » TiVo versus MCE versus my cable company: But, given that a decent MCE PC with an equivalent capacity and a decent tuner (lacking immensely until the ATI TV-Wonder Elite came out - to say nothing of pre-MCE 2005’s miserable S-Video picture quality) runs around $1500 (I’m being generous), while a 140-hour Tivo with lifetime subscription costs $600, I would expect MCE to be more useful. Why bother with MCE if I can get the never-crash, always on (with low power consumption), effortlessly intuitive, only-slightly-less-capable Tivo for less than half the price?

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, TIVO, TiVo, PVRLib