I had Comcast for past two years (I recently switched to AT&T) and didn't lease a set-top-box from Comcast: I have a TiVo Premiere and just rented a cable card from them. I have never had a Comcast DVR (been a TiVo owner since TiVo model 1), so I can't compare their features. But since I've always bought with lifetime subscriptions from TiVo, I've never been a renter. It works fine and even has a (crappy UI) working Xfinity on-demand app.

dude, you gotta check out the demo. I'm a big AOE2 fan/player as well, and the demo for SWGB is very disappointing... they seem to take AOE2, slap star wars graphics on it, then ass-ify it. The fighting units are hard(er) to control, you can't (at least in the demo) get them to stand their ground and do nothing/not attack.

I really wanted to get it, even after reading GameSpot's review, but now, I don't think I will.. at least not for $50 freakin dollars.