bbarrera
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Sacramento, CA
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| reply to pnh102
Re: Difference?
said by pnh102  :what would the Comcast Tivo box do for me that the current Comcast HD Dual DVR box does not do? We've got 30 days experience with the Comcast Motorola 6412 dual-tuner and have a love/hate relationship. Great HD picture but the DVR has too many software problems and this unit has the latest software. On the other hand no problems with Tivo after 4 years. Here are a few issues we are experiencing:
- lose sound while playing recordings (both live buffer and recordings) but can be recovered by a quick rewind/fast forward
- fails to record the entire show
- hard drive 21% full (3 hours HDTV), started recording show and within 10 minutes it claimed drive was full and forced us to delete a recording before continuing to use DVR
- small hard drive and currently no way to expand using eSATA, FW or USB ports on back of unit (yes I know about connecting a computer via FW)
This box has been in the market for 2 years, bugs this fundamental should have been worked out by now. And I'm conveniently overlooking how well Tivo works compared to Comcast box (e.g. 'loose power and loose programming guide for 12-24 hours').
We've left our Tivo connected so we don't lose shows that the Comcast box is suppose to record. I guess the apologists can say 'its good enough' but right now the box works like Win98.
While I hope Tivo software on the Motorola 6412 fixes the problem, that remains to be seen as I haven't used Tivo Series 2 dual-tuner or the Series 3. Assuming Tivo Series 3 works well then I give good odds that Tivo on Comcast's Motorola DVR will bring sanity back to our TV. |
