The greatest threat to consumer freedom in recent American history, the so-called “broadcast flag,” has been soundly defeated in a court of law. Your rights to watch and record whatever television programs you wish has been protected, rather than savagely and irrevocably ripped away from your hands, like the FCC and the content providers and studios wanted it to be.
The VCR remains a legal piece of technology, and the digital age has not changed your right to record and watch television when you want without loss of quality or interference or recording limits from the studios.
Your TiVo - and mine - is safe.
For now.