Recording television without cable service?

Question

My friend lives where no cable service is available. Is there anything like TIVO that she can use to record her television programs. Not a VCR. Something that will find the programs and record them every week.

Answer 1

She can get a DVD recorder (you record on DVDs), or a DVD recorder with Hard Drive (you record on DVDs or the hard Drive) or a Tivo box or satellite set-top box/PVR