After twisting the Monster receptionist's arm, I got an email address for somebody in tech support who responded after a few hours. Thankfully, he didn't give me any grief about not running my antenna through the surge surpressor, so it looks like I will get covered by them. Apparently, I'll get "fair market value" for my dead amp and TiVo only after an "authorized service center" has declared them beyond repair. There are a few of those in Houston for Onkyo, but for the TiVo? Nothing helpful on the DirecTV web site. After nearly 20 minutes on the phone with DirecTV, the best I got out of them is that they'd offer to replace it for $499 + $14.95 s/h. Now, it's back to Monster...