Comcast DVR

[98Cobra]

Just needed to share...

I hope the developers of this piece of she-at get hit by a bus.

Thanks,

Garett

[Tex Arcana]

Just needed to share...

I hope the developers of this piece of she-at get hit by a bus.

Thanks,

Garett
What, you ahve no details as to what problems you were having?

[98Cobra]

Its just a hunk of ****.

- If I start watching The Daily Show while it is recording, when recording finishes at 10:30 it jumps straight to live TV and the recording is lost.

- If I am watching TV the recorded buffer, and hit the On Demand button by mistake, my buffer is gone. I know thats because technically it is changing to channel 1, but that is ghey. Its a dual tuner box, it should be smarter than that.

- Sometimes it will simply reset/power off, even while watching a show. Fortunately that is rare.

- Can be VERY slow to respond to channel changes.

- Doesn't work like Tivo, where if you are fast forwarding through commercials and get to the show, when hitting play being smart enough to jump back a few seconds - nope, you have to rewind.

- User interface in the menus, like to search for programs in the guide, it flat blows. My parents could never use this box.

[Mark #2]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=580&e=3&u=/nm/20050802/bs_nm/media_comcast_earns_dc

I guess they are selling a lot of these:rll:

[Tex Arcana]

Its just a hunk of ****.

- If I start watching The Daily Show while it is recording, when recording finishes at 10:30 it jumps straight to live TV and the recording is lost.

- If I am watching TV the recorded buffer, and hit the On Demand button by mistake, my buffer is gone. I know thats because technically it is changing to channel 1, but that is ghey. Its a dual tuner box, it should be smarter than that.

- Sometimes it will simply reset/power off, even while watching a show. Fortunately that is rare.

- Can be VERY slow to respond to channel changes.

- Doesn't work like Tivo, where if you are fast forwarding through commercials and get to the show, when hitting play being smart enough to jump back a few seconds - nope, you have to rewind.

- User interface in the menus, like to search for programs in the guide, it flat blows. My parents could never use this box.


Damn, and I thought I had problems with my Dish DVR. :( Compared to yours, mine's damn near flawless, and I'm *HARD* on mine, to the point where I've jammed it up so bad it had to be hard-reset, and lost ALL recordings!! But mine's much better with those situations than yours. Maybe you need to go DIsh! :d

[Tex Arcana]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=580&e=3&u=/nm/20050802/bs_nm/media_comcast_earns_dc

I guess they are selling a lot of these:rll:

Mainly because they are damn near giving them away with their uplevel packages and Dish/direcTV trade-ins. :rolleyes:

[Mark #2]

Mainly because they are damn near giving them away with their uplevel packages and Dish/direcTV trade-ins. :rolleyes:

I think they are selling them way over what they actually cost, see below.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. cable operator Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq:CMCSA (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/nm/bs_nm/storytext/media_comcast_earns_dc/15975138/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=cmcsa&d=t) - news (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/biz/nm/bs_nm/storytext/media_comcast_earns_dc/15975138/*http://biz.yahoo.com/n/c/cmcsa.html)) posted a 64 percent rise in second-quarter net income on Tuesday, boosted by new digital video products such as digital video recorders.
Comcast said net profit rose to $430 million, or 19 cents per share, from $262 million, or 12 cents per share, a year earlier.

[98Cobra]

Well, they dont sell the DVR, they rent it - $5 a month.

Its a steal, on paper - Tivo is $12.95 a month, and thats after you buy it. Plus it doesnt handle HDTV.

But if it did, I'd gladly pay it.

[Tex Arcana]

I think they are selling them way over what they actually cost, see below.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. cable operator Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq:CMCSA (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/finance/nm/bs_nm/storytext/media_comcast_earns_dc/15975138/*http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=cmcsa&d=t) - news (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/biz/nm/bs_nm/storytext/media_comcast_earns_dc/15975138/*http://biz.yahoo.com/n/c/cmcsa.html)) posted a 64 percent rise in second-quarter net income on Tuesday, boosted by new digital video products such as digital video recorders.
Comcast said net profit rose to $430 million, or 19 cents per share, from $262 million, or 12 cents per share, a year earlier.


You forget their bundle deals, where they toss in the receiver for next to nothing (or, like he said, they rent it), as part of a package. Both of the DVRs I got were thru the same kind of deal--no direct purchase, just part of a bundle deal. Maybe they can massage the books enough to call those bundles "sales", and make them show a profit based on planned future income, I dunno. Rest of that sme article spoke of the loss of business and drop in subscriptions, so it makes ya wonder where exactly thta comes from. :rolleyes:

[Logan]

That's all she-at...

I got me one of these 60hr Sony HD DVR's... Greatest thing since sliced bread, no fee's, records 60hrs of HD or 400hrs of analog...

Clicky Click (http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=DHGHDD500&Dept=tvvideo&CategoryName=tvhav_HDDVRs)

Got mine on ebay for about $700... Worth every penny compared to tivo or the she-at cable co offerings...