Not sure about Rogers but I'm with Shaw and they have SD U.S. channels timeshift, HD U.S. channels timeshift and then have the Cdn timeshift channels. All this makes for a lot of timeshift channels which sort of duplicate their shows at the same time. All I really watch is the American HD channels which we get in the Eastern and then Pacific time zones.

One thing I like is that if you miss your show earlier you can catch it later that night (especially with summer coming up where you spend evenings outside). If Shaw would follow suit and drop some of the Canadian timeshift channels, I probably wouldn't mind. I imagine it would be the Cdn ones dropped, since they are the ones requesting fee for carriage and alot of their programming duplicates the US networks anyways.

West-coast feeds without the PVR is pretty much useless to me. Primetime starts at 11PM. Most shows I watch are 9PM or even 10PM stats in the East. Or did you meam VoD when you talked about time shifting?

i would be watching 90% less tv if i didn't have a pvr. i am not home often so i miss many shows when they are on regularly. i only timeshift some recordings and the only things i usually watch live are races [f1, cart, nascar...] or if i am home at some time and don't feel like watching any primetime recordings off the pvr and look to something off hgtv, tlc, discovery, pbs...

when rogers does release a new pvr, i'll look at getting one.. how about a few TB of storage space, 4 tuners and multiroom option.. and a 17" wide chassis and not silver. that little silver box doesn't match anything in my stand which has lots of 17" wide black boxes [gonna paint my box black to blend in better this summer when i am on vacation i think]

The wife already complains about when I'm PVRing two shows, so she can't watch a live channel

Why not connect the cable to the TV tuner input? That way she can at least watch the analog channels, while the PVR is busy.