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| I have a Tivo And you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands...
I do not know where they are getting their info on how the cable, phone and satellite operator DVR's are getting better.. but I will respectfully disagree.
When I spent the $800 (yes I am a semi early adopter of the S3 model), it was not without pains.. mostly my wife banning me for months from buying one. Prior to that I had 2 DirecTivo's that I have had since they first came out in the early 2000's.
Move forward a few years, I bought my first HDTV in 2006 or 2007 and the upgrade path for Directv's DVR was expensive, so we switched to FIOS, they installed the DVR.. its was a steaming pile of shit, there is no other way to say it. 5 min of attempting to use it (no freaking page down for crying out loud), my wife almost destroyed either the remote.. or the wall, any more force and I am not sure what would have given first.. I get a call and am ordered to buy the Tivo..
Honestly, when you consider the rental costs over time, the Tivo does work out cheaper then renting a DVR, the downside of course is that if it breaks, you have to pay to fix it.. but I accept that risk. | |
| said by jvanbrecht:Move forward a few years, I bought my first HDTV in 2006 or 2007 and the upgrade path for Directv's DVR was expensive, so we switched to FIOS, they installed the DVR.. its was a steaming pile of shit, there is no other way to say it. 5 min of attempting to use it (no freaking page down for crying out loud) I've had significant time around cable co DVRs since 2003 - Cox SA, Comcast Moto, and now the FiOS DVR. I just can't see why people hate the Vz DVR so much. It's done everything as good (or better) than the others. and the UI is so much prettier!
-By the way, the fios DVR has always had PAGE UP/DOWN. It's the channel +/- buttn.
I have a relative with Tivo and I think it's the most overhyped CE device out there.
Having said all of that, I'm now the proud owner of 3 tuner MOXI with two mates, and I LOVE it.
It's not without it's shortcomings (for now), but even if development stopped today, the investment will pay for itself in under 2 years (in my book). | |
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Arlington, VA | reply to jvanbrecht
Oh I feel you on Verizon's Home Media DVR. I love my FIOS service but that Motorolla box with Verizon's software running on it stinks. I tried the box for a month after I got FIOS then promptely sent the box back to them after three weeks.
Two years later I take out my TiVos and get the VZ Home Media DVR again thinking I'd save a few bucks because surely they had worked out all the freakin bugs buy now. Sadly I was mistaken and I was now stuck with that crap box for a year. Fortunately, this past October I was released from my Home Media Hell and promptly sent the box back to Verizon, re-installed my old Series 2 and ordered a refurbished TiVo HD at a 100 dollar discount.
I don't have it now but I had a list of 11 bugs that I experienced with Verizon's Home Media DVR. Seems they are not interested in fixing them so I'm not interested in using it. Overall, I'm very satisfied with FIOS - TV, Internet and Phone. | |
| reply to moxilover
No, when the very first FIOS DVR came out, it had no page up or page down, however, people were buying the old comcast remote and using that with the FIOS DVR (since both were made by the same company) for page up an down.
As for problems with the Verizon DVR (granted I have not used it for more then a week while I waited for my cable cards to arrive), but the posts around here and other places, the guide data is not reliable (granted thats third party, but it is still Verizons problem), shows that are new are marked as repeats and repeats marked as new. Season passes often missed shows. That is a core functionality of the box, if they cannot get that right, am I to trust them for more advanced features.
It was slow, it was RED!!!, why oh why does verizon have to f with the UI of everything, it was slow... did I mention it was slow...
I could honestly go on... | | |
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