tiyuri
join:2001-06-06
Little Silver, NJ | and it keeps the best feature of the current Verizon guide! Display only favorite channels! I hated scrolling through all the crappy channels I didn't get or watch when I had Comcast. Being able to edit the channels in my guide has been great. I am glad Verizon has decided to keep that feature. |
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| You gotta thanks microsoft for making it happen. |
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KenAF
join:2006-01-23
Arlington, VA
4 edits | Agreed.
When I had Comcast, I was stuck with a guide that had 300+ channels. It took forever to scroll through them all to find what I wanted.
With FiOS, my guide has just 32 channels -- the ones I watch the most. I can scroll through and see everything showing on my favorite channels in a matter of seconds. There's no banners, advertisements, or other such clutter. Why someone would pay $12-$15/mo for a DVR and tolerate all sorts of crap in their guide is beyond me.
The new "guide 2.0" looks great, but unfortunately the FiOS DVR is still limited to a paltry 160Gb storage. That might be a reasonable amount for a DirecTV or Dish DVR with their "HDTV Lite," but FiOS HDTV is far superior in quality, and superior HDTV quality requires more space.
Tivo Series3 users recently got the ability to add 1Tb eSATA drives to their boxes, so hopefully Verizon will enable the eSATA connection on its DVRs in the not-too-distant future. |
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| reply to brooklynman4
you are crasy verizon got f up with microsoft thats why verizon got its own people to created the new guide so please this is all verizon. if you have fios the mdvr does not work because microsoft f*^$ up this new guide is called mercury and is thanks to microsoft |
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