Wow, bringing the thread back from the dead.
Guess it needs to be updated with the following info:
1) Tivo announced at the Citi conference that it will be mid-2010 before release at the earliest. So it's been "delayed". But then most of us didn't expect it out until 2010 anyway.
2) Tivo did not show it at CES and refused to even comment on anything with DirecTV, after months of not being able to stop talking about it. So something even further wrong has happened, either problems with the build/hardware or financial issues or whatnot.
So at the least it's at least a year to year and a half from release. At worse it could be delayed or even canceled. Weird that Tivo refused to even talk about the product. DirecTV of course has never said a peep about it since the press release last summer.
So it's a long way off either way.