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voipguy
join:2006-05-31
Forest Hills, NY

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Anyone ever had their cable-provided DVR go bad?

What happens when the friendly cable technician replaces it?

That's right - you lose everything!

With network-based storage, you could swap boxes and still have your content. You could also record from a box in one room and watch on another.
iq100
join:2002-02-06
Cold Spring Harbor, NY

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iq100

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said by voipguy:

Anyone ever had their cable-provided DVR go bad?

What happens when the friendly cable technician replaces it?

That's right - you lose everything!

With network-based storage, you could swap boxes and still have your content. You could also record from a box in one room and watch on another.
Except when you swap your TV provider, you loose ALL your recorded programs. When people ask you to prove the METS actually won a world series, your carefully recorded proof will have disappeared. What a crock this DVR is. Whether home based box, or network/head end box. What you record is owned by the Cablevisions of the world, and can disappear at their whim. I guess a sucker is born every day.