| Great modems, crummy cable boxes Motorola makes great modems and other two way communications devices, but their cable boxes plain stink.
I've had a Motorola SB4100, 5100, and now a SBV5220 eMTA and they all worked great. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by cypherstream:Motorola makes great modems and other two way communications devices, but their cable boxes plain stink. Scientific Atlanta's modems(Webstar) and cable boxes(SA3250HD) both suck.
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| Ive used an SA box before and thought it was freakin awesome. Try using a Motorola one day. Its user interface is so bland, its like using Windows 3.1.
At least with the SA DVR's you can add external hard drive storage, picture in picture, play games, caller ID on the TV screen, GUI animations and fades, channel logo's have native HD resolution pass through, all in a footprint almost half the size of the Motorola boxes.
Try to channel surf on a Motorola DVR. Try changing channels and after the 6th or 7th consecutive change (in either up or down direction) the whole box locks up for 10 seconds. After this it executes all your remote commands at once. Quite annoying. The performance is HORRIBLE.
Not to mention I have to power off the box and go into the setup menu to change HD resolutions from 720P for ESPN/ABC/FOX to 1080i for CBS/NBC/Discovery, etc.. |
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1 edit | Why would you need a nice looking UI for a cable modem? If it does its job and is stable and reliable, you should never have to even go into the UI. The device should be entirely transparent.
And the article was discussing their cable modems, not their DVRs. |
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| I know that, all I said was that they make great modems but crummy cable boxes. Then dvd536 said that the SA modems and boxes both suck. Well I had to prove him wrong.
Thats how it got off on a tangent. |
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