 hoyleysox
join:2003-11-07
Long Beach, CA | I hope it works better than the current one For some reason the audio and video is intermittently choppy for a few seconds at a time when recording high definition prime time shows using the COX provided DVR that I have now. | |
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imrf
Premium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI | Re: I hope it works better than the current one You'll be using the same DVR you have now. | |
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Eat Me
join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ | Get a TiVo Already has MRV and the fees are probably cheaper than a cable company DVR.
As a bonus it plays netflix and amazon vod. | |
| | wierdo
join:2001-02-16
Tulsa, OK
 ·Future Nine Corpor..
·Teliax VOIP
1 edit | Re: Get a TiVo said by Eat Me  :Already has MRV and the fees are probably cheaper than a cable company DVR. As a bonus it plays netflix and amazon vod. The first TiVo is about the same. In some Cox markets it's a little more (when you include the cablecards), in others it's a little less. Second, third, fourth, or fifth TiVos are significantly cheaper than the 'normal' Cox DVR rate, not even considering the higher amount Cox charges for extra DVRs in some markets.
That said, they probably will make the multi-room DVR feature work with only a single DVR box. It'll probably work like U-Verse does, which is to say pretty poorly in the user experience department.
I'm wondering how the more widespread deployment of MoCA will affect the MoCA bridges I already have. I've tested it, I can get a pretty decent signal on my bridges over at my neighbor's house, so I can only imagine how it'll be when everybody on the street is using it.
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It's wierdo, not weirdo. Yes, I know that's not the 'proper' spelling of the similar english language word.  | |
| | | JPL
Premium
join:2007-04-04
West Chester, PA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Get a TiVo If they're using the same company that Verizon does, why would it be like U-Verse? I would imagine it would operate much like Verizon's multi-room DVR (FiOS also uses MoCA). In which case you wouldn't be able to feed DVR to DVR. You'd feed from DVR to STB. | |
| | | | wierdo
join:2001-02-16
Tulsa, OK
·Future Nine Corpor..
·Teliax VOIP
| Re: Get a TiVo said by JPL :If they're using the same company that Verizon does, why would it be like U-Verse? I would imagine it would operate much like Verizon's multi-room DVR (FiOS also uses MoCA). In which case you wouldn't be able to feed DVR to DVR. You'd feed from DVR to STB. That's what U-Verse does. The problem is that none of the DVR features are usable on the STB, even in the most basic way. I really can't get why some enterprising company doesn't throw 512MB of RAM in an STB so limited trick play or a bathroom break pause is possible.
Or even easier, the ability to schedule DVR recordings from the STBs. Lacking that functionality is completely inexcusable.
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It's wierdo, not weirdo. Yes, I know that's not the 'proper' spelling of the similar english language word. | |
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Cox Multi-Room DVR Looms
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Be prepared to pay through the nose.
As usual in sure that customers will have to pay through the nose for the additional service. Apparently customers will no longer be able to own their own equipment. In this area you will pay almost the same amount per month for a TiVO as for a cable company owned DVR. The rates were just raised to $15.95 for the first DVR and $22.90 for an additional DVR. I am still waiting for pricing for cable company costs a TiVO.