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I was thinking about getting a DVR. Does anyone know anything that could help me? I don't want Tivo because i don't want another monthly bill and the machines don't work w/out the service contract. any help would be appreciated.

gimpyThewonder wrote:I was thinking about getting a DVR. Does anyone know anything that could help me?

Money?

i have it its pretty good.

couple hundred i would think. nothing too extravagent. I just basically want to replace using vcr tapes. I don't need lots of features, just something i can program to record each week

gimpyThewonder wrote:I was thinking about getting a DVR. Does anyone know anything that could help me? I don't want Tivo because i don't want another monthly bill and the machines don't work w/out the service contract. any help would be appreciated.

Tivo=perfection.

DVR=lame attempt to copy tivo.

I understand people love their tivos. but as i've explained earlier, its not something i want. does anyone have helpful suggestions?

gimpyThewonder wrote:I understand people love their tivos. but as i've explained earlier, its not something i want. does anyone have helpful suggestions?

That's only because you haven't tried it yet. With DVR, when the recording space gets low (usually by 85%) the recordings themselves get crummy and start pixilating. It has an awful tendency to get stuck going fast or backwards. The season pass option sucks, it remembers it by time and channel, which means you have to program which channel it comes on and at what time, and if that program is actually not running during that time period, it still records it.

Tivo is much more user friendly.

Comcast DVR.

unriggable wrote:Comcast DVR.

The one that so fucked up and gives everyone I know the impulse to burn it, smash it, shoot it, throw it out of a 1000 story building and then nuke it.

I have it - believe it or not, the problem with comcast isn't their products, it's the customer service.

http://consumerist.com/362099/comcast-w ... -junk-mail

No it's both. Their customer service could win worst and the world, and we have to replace the box at least once a month so that has to rule out having high quality products.

Look for one called Sonar.

We got it at best buy in Canada, for $250 and it's gone down in price.

It has an easy to program timer and a replacable hard drive so you can upgrade it or change it when it dies.

I'm using it right now to watch poker after dark. The only thing I don't like is when you turn it on it wants to load the DVD before you can do anything else and if you don't turn it off the timer isn't accurate after a day.

Here's a link to a forum where people are talking about it.
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic313329.html

thanks for the suggestions

Read the forum in the link, they seem to know what's what with the DVR scene.