Re: Comcast DVR Questions...
I really can't believe all the people in this thread saying Comcast DVR's are "great" or even "good". I have the dual tuner Motorola from Comcast and they are, to put it bluntly, garbage pretty much. I'm on my 5th tuner as they keep having problems and Comcast's solution is to give you another box. What kind of problems? Well let me see:
1. Phantom programs showing up without a title on the box, with a record date of 1989, can't erase these and after awhile the more you get...leads to problem 2.
2. Unbelievably bad response time the longer you own the box, the more you use it. Right now i've had my box for about a year so about 60-70% of the time each button press takes about 5 or 6 seconds, sometimes minutes, to go through. Yes I know I can exchange it to get back the instant response but then I gotta reprogram everything.
3. Sometimes it simply does not record items. Although this is rare there are certain shows that my comcast box seemingly has a mind of it's own and refuses to record unless I program a manual record. 24 comes to mind. It got to the point where I made sure I was home when 24 was on so I could just watch it when it was on because the box seemed to never want to record it.
4. The interface is archaic and clunky. The interface for this box really reminds me of the 1980's commodore 64 interface, it's sinfully ugly.
5. The box needs reset every so often or it simply quits working, ie you'll turn to NBC and there is no picture. One way i've found around this is playing a program I have on my DVR, then stopping it and then the picture will be back again but I shouldn't have to do this. You REALLY do not want to reset because it takes the box literally 3 or 4 days to get back all your program listings.
6. At $10 a month I think this service is overpriced as it's not as good as Tivo. A more fair price would be $6 I believe.
I've heard that the new HDMI enabled boxes are better, the box I have is the DVI box, which I have a DVI to HDMI cable running to my tv, so maybe the people in this thread who have the newer HDMI boxes are having a better experience. Personally I think the best DVR service is Microsoft's now defunct offering of Ultimate TV...that thing worked great, the controls were instant, it was smart in it's recordings, even adjusting to added minutes on shows like E/R and etc and also webtv enabled so if you wanted to check something like the weather from your Lazyboy you could. If you have direcTV i'd recommend hitting up Ebay for an UltimateTV box as Directv still supports it, but the units just aren't sold new anymore.
I really can't believe all the people in this thread saying Comcast DVR's are "great" or even "good". I have the dual tuner Motorola from Comcast and they are, to put it bluntly, garbage pretty much. I'm on my 5th tuner as they keep having problems and Comcast's solution is to give you another box. What kind of problems? Well let me see:
1. Phantom programs showing up without a title on the box, with a record date of 1989, can't erase these and after awhile the more you get...leads to problem 2.
2. Unbelievably bad response time the longer you own the box, the more you use it. Right now i've had my box for about a year so about 60-70% of the time each button press takes about 5 or 6 seconds, sometimes minutes, to go through. Yes I know I can exchange it to get back the instant response but then I gotta reprogram everything.
3. Sometimes it simply does not record items. Although this is rare there are certain shows that my comcast box seemingly has a mind of it's own and refuses to record unless I program a manual record. 24 comes to mind. It got to the point where I made sure I was home when 24 was on so I could just watch it when it was on because the box seemed to never want to record it.
4. The interface is archaic and clunky. The interface for this box really reminds me of the 1980's commodore 64 interface, it's sinfully ugly.
5. The box needs reset every so often or it simply quits working, ie you'll turn to NBC and there is no picture. One way i've found around this is playing a program I have on my DVR, then stopping it and then the picture will be back again but I shouldn't have to do this. You REALLY do not want to reset because it takes the box literally 3 or 4 days to get back all your program listings.
6. At $10 a month I think this service is overpriced as it's not as good as Tivo. A more fair price would be $6 I believe.
I've heard that the new HDMI enabled boxes are better, the box I have is the DVI box, which I have a DVI to HDMI cable running to my tv, so maybe the people in this thread who have the newer HDMI boxes are having a better experience. Personally I think the best DVR service is Microsoft's now defunct offering of Ultimate TV...that thing worked great, the controls were instant, it was smart in it's recordings, even adjusting to added minutes on shows like E/R and etc and also webtv enabled so if you wanted to check something like the weather from your Lazyboy you could. If you have direcTV i'd recommend hitting up Ebay for an UltimateTV box as Directv still supports it, but the units just aren't sold new anymore.
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