It is worth it for me. Every time the wife yells "Why did this thing change the channel. It won't let me turn it back/ Help!". I am thankful for the second Hopper that avoids that confrontation. Right now I am in transition and she is using my old Hopper until I can get all the recordings backed off to EHD, and there are still recordings set that tie up all three tuners at times like this morning. I thought I had deleted enough timers to avoid conflict, but obviously I missed some. I can't wait for that Jn udate to fix all the EHD problems.