 oliphantI Have 8 BoobiesPremium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | That's what happens... When you raise fees, make people pay steep charges for cool features like HMO, put more and more advertising into the PAY service and then float ideas of putting commercials over fast forwarded commercials. I was a 3 TiVo owner (1 died and had 2 when I cancelled). Now I'm happily with Comcraps updated 2 tuner HD-DVR. The features aren't as extensive as TiVo, but it has series recording which I found most important...but it has 2 things TiVo didn't...$5/mo price tag (Comcrap gets $5 more for HDDVR than their regular HD converter) and 2 tuner HD recording capability. Having working firewire which I routinely use to copy HD programming to HD-DVHS is just another bonus.
TiVo had their chance and got greedy with both consumers and system operators acting like they and ReplayTV were the only games in town when it came to DVR technology. Well Motorola and others have stepped up and after a few horrid first attempts and now putting out decent DVR products with more features for less money.
I'm just glad I wasn't suckered into the $300 lifetime membership.
--
Don't get it, demand it! The Anime Network www.theanimenetwork.com |
Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | Yep, they completely blew it. My Sister-in-law has Tivo, and its pretty nice. But its still a single-tuner non-HD box, that now lags horribly AND has to be plugged into a phone jack (ver. 1). The fact that I got my Dual-Tuner DVR for $5's a month, just makes me laugh. It will take 100 months for them to pay back their Tivo, I bet the HD dies before then. (or Tivo goes out of business) Regardless I'm sure to have mine upgraded a few times by compcrap as more features come out. All free to me. I would MUCH rather rent my DVR instead of buy it, especially if the rent is going to be so low. If I ever record something I don't want to delete I can always off load it on to my HTPC, which is just a glorified media storage/player now anyway. |
