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 DaveDudeNo Fear
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| Re: I'm happy with them said by fiberguy:said by DaveDude:Please be a little more specific, my complaints are legit. It took 3 truckrolls to get cablecard working on my tivo, and 4 on a tv, which had worked for years. That's still not 100% comcast's fault either. Not to be pre-argumentative here, but, the manufactures even are aware of short falls with their own firmware and have told cable companies 1) what they are, and 2) when they expect resolution.. All I'm saying is that it's not always necessarily comcast's, or cable in general, fault. All they can really do is plug the numbers into the computer, make sure the rates are there for CC, and that's it. The rest is typical signal, house drop, plant and other issues. What comcast DOES need to do, as all operators, is place pressure on their vendors in a MAJOR way, to step up quality of the product ... while we're customers of comcast, comcast is a customer of Motorola, Cisco, and all everything else they touch. My biggest gripe has been that they roll over and play dead with hardware manufactures and allow this crap to continue to flow unchecked. Its not like the consumer can call up Moto and bitch slap the company in anyway. So the problem is more with motorola , see i agree with you. As a large big dog like comcast, i would think they would demand more. Saying to motorola get your act together, or we will find another contractor.
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|  fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Re: I'm happy with them Exactly!
To be honest, Comcast, like all cable providers, should be happy about the July ruling of separable security... they should use that and approach other vendors to manufacture boxes to what customers want.
PERSONALLY, I think the Tivo thing was a good "IDEA" but they went around it all wrong.. both of them did.
Instead of making software for current boxes, they should have just gone to Tivo and said "Make us a box that works with our DAC, on the Tivo Platform and make sure it can do all of the following..." Instead of making a hack software attempt, they should have gone with the route of all new boxes and discontinued the relationship with Moto in buying any additional DVR boxes. | |
| | DaveDudeNo Fear
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| Re: I'm happy with them Fiber,
comcast should have asked Tivo for a cheaper box, and had it premade for comcast. Video on demand could have been remade, to look like netflix, or amazon. Everyone would have been happy, it would have inspired others to re-create it. Instead we got the flatliner motorolas we have today. | |
| | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Re: I'm happy with them That's what I was basically saying... instead of asking them for software on their current crappy hardware from Moto, they should have just went to Tivo with what they needed and let Tivo make a box that would do it all. I BET that customers, for the first year or two even, would have ate those boxes up like crazy.. Then, its my guess, that Tivo would have been releasing new boxes to market on a regular basis as well.. it would have been a win win.. it would have put Tivo up there on the lines of Motorola and S/A-Cisco as box makers and shored up their financials for sure! (To be honest, I think if they did that, Motorola would have gone the way of the former AT&T.. either died off, completely or absorbed by another company all together)
Moto is behind the time anyway.. their hardware is lackluster, they can't design ANYTHING with style,.. I could go on.. But, it's a company that's stuck in the 1980's with a lackluster attempt to style it for modern times. | |
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00000 | Re: I'm happy with them said by fiberguy:they can't design ANYTHING with style,.. You mean you don't like giant grey bricks wider than every other AV component on the market and top vents that preclude you from stacking anything on top? Geez, a little picky aren't we? LOL. | |
| | | | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Re: I'm happy with them Yup!
Well.. let's be fair now.. when they designed that box, it was very much designed to be the same size as one of those popular VCR machines..  | |
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00000 | Re: I'm happy with them And my 8088. | |
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