For a show that I really want to see in high quality, I'll VPN and VNC home, transfer the show from my Tivo to one of my home computers, transcode it and then download it to watch on my laptop. For a 1 hour show, depending on my internet connection, this can take up to 8 hours to get to my laptop. For shows whose quality I don't care about, e.g. staying current with the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, I'll use the Slingbox, which is much, much easier. As others have noted, quality depends on the speed of the internet connection, but is never really great. The biggest "con," though of the Slingbox is trying to control a Tivo -- because the Slingbox builds in a delay for its buffer, it's hard to fast forward over commercials, even in "control" mode (which minimized, but doesn't eliminate, the buffer).