They can buy a company, load it up with debt, lay off the workers, strip away the pensions, send the jobs overseas -- and still make a big profit doing it.
One feature you're not getting with this unit -- besides the inability to record OTA programming -- is DRM support, so if you want to load up your PlaysForSure- or FairPlay-protected tracks, you'll need to strip out the copy protection with one of those handy pieces of software first (not that we'd ever encourage that sort of behavior, of course).