Corydon
Cultivant son jardin
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Denver, CO
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| reply to Shrapnel64
Re: This would seem to be a windfall for
You know, I hear about people having trouble with cable boxes, but my experience has been that they're pretty solid. There's not really all that much that can go wrong with a plain digital cable box (as opposed to a DVR that has a hard drive that can fail).
It is true that the cable companies will be off the hook for maintaining these things, but presumably they'll be covered by some kind of manufacturer's warranty just like the rest of the TV.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| said by Corydon  :You know, I hear about people having trouble with cable boxes, but my experience has been that they're pretty solid. There's not really all that much that can go wrong with a plain digital cable box (as opposed to a DVR that has a hard drive that can fail). Lots can go wrong, tuners fail/feed noise into the ADC, if your firmware gets screwed up, or an update fails half way through (happened), or your cable company rolls an update which happens to exploit a bug in the box(1/2 of the times, when a VOD title finishes, the box doesn't respond to input and reboots in 15 seconds), and now the box is dead or restarts all the time, or VOD and IPG are dead.
How many TV VCR combos are out there where their VCR unit failed? (I'm comparing apples to oranges, mechanical to pure electronic) |
