said by SGR:For me Tivo is amazing mostly because of two reasons.
1. It works and rarely crashes. Come to think of it in the five years I had it I never saw one crash. It also NEVER missed a recording unless it was my fault. (Tivo will even tell you why it didn't record something which ends up proving to you it was your fault. For example, "You told me to record two other things instead", LOL) Since I've moved to Comcast three months ago I've had probably around 50 crashes and three bad boxes before I got one that "works". I also have to keep up on my Comcast box because sometimes it just doesn't feel like recording something or it ends up corrupting the recording and thus making it unwatchable.
2. Tivo has numerous possibilities when it comes to looking for something to record and/or watch. You can literally spend 30 minutes messing with the Tivo interface finding good stuff to watch. With other DVR's like the Comcast DVR software there is virtually no way to find stuff to watch except for looking through the guide.
I'm sure I'll catch some bad words for this (generally if you say anything negative yet constructive about Comcast here you get torn apart) but I switched to Comcast for just the HD programming since Directv is known to use HDLite. After using the Comcast HD DVR's for a month I realized I missed my old Tivo and pretty much decided to go back to Directv just because of my hacked Directivo. Well, soon after I learned Tivo was coming to Comcast and meanwhile Directv was loosing Tivo. This is the sole reason for me staying with Comcast. My only hope is that the current HD DVR's only crash so much because of the software they use and once Tivo gets released the boxes will be stable. We'll see!
Sounds good will comcast get this in 2007? NA show much will it cost? I already pay 10 more a month for the DVR.
