TIVO is more important to me than my microwave oven!
Since you wrote that, I have been thinking which items in my home I would place ahead of my TiVo's (3)
I would never give up DirecTV, so that's one.
I would never go back to low-definition TV, so two.
After that, TiVo is the most important appliance in my home. I would give up my X-Box'es before I gave up TiVo.