The retail package includes the software, a TiVo remote, USB IR receiver, HD-compatible USB tuner and a one-year subscription to the service. The package normally costs $199.99, but right now it is selling for $103.99 at amazon.

The Software is same as that of TiVo set-top box with Season Pass and KidZone features, except there are no extras like music and photos.

Complaints are pouring in on the latest Vista Service Pack 1, which is said to fix 551 bugs in the Windows Vista. People are complaining about slow shutdown times, the infamous “blue screen of death”, sidebar loading problems, remote assistance problems and several others related to drivers and performance on windowsvistablog. Even the tech guys at the University of Pennsylvania advised the staff and students to stay off the Vista SP1 update.

Major software patches are known to cause problems on the first release, Windows XP SP1 caused numerous problems when it was first shipped in 2002. On the other side of the River, some people reported fast file transfers, fast network speeds, heavy applications such as Adobe Photoshop CS3 running smoothly. It is recommended to follow a “wait and see” approach on Vista SP1, However, if you are willing to update to Vista SP1, see that your system has at least dual-core or hyperthreading processor with a minimum of 1.5 GB RAM.

Digsby is a pretty cool application that lets you do you chat with all your friends no matter which client they are on. Also the application provides an email notification tool that alerts of new mails(all networks) and provides simple functions like delete and mark as spam. And, there is a social networking tool that informs of new messages and your friends activities that are going on in the social networking Websites such as FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter.

[Download: Digsby]