[quote name='shrike4242'][quote name='slidecage']40 hours is nothing if you plan on recording alot Remember that 40 hours is in the Long play mode (meaning Awful playback) to get a picture that looks like Real TV on a 40 hour model you will be lucky to get 11 1/2 to i think 23 hours (that is the 2 best settings) I myself have a COMCAST DVR with up to 50 hours (depends if your taping
HDVT 8 hours tops
Reg TV 32 hours tops
Digital tv 50 hours around
Right now i got around 43 hours into my box (93% filled) so i would never go back to TIVO. Plus you cant tape HBO and the other movie channels with a TIVO you can with the COMCAST BOX .. ALSO
TIVO SET UP 100-400 for the box and 12.95 per month
COMCAST 0 for the box and 9.95 for the service a month
SO if your cable company has DVR boxes or getting them soon I would stay FAR FAR away from tivo[/quote]
I wouldn't touch a cable-company DVR with a ten foot pole. Some reasons:
1) You don't own the box, so you can't do any upgrades to it, like you could with a TiVo. Not an issue with someone who doesn't want to mod it, though when you don't own it, you don't have any control on what happens to it.
2) TiVo, for now, doesn't do any limitations on how long programs can stay on it. Supposedly, they will change that for movies and PPV stuff, which I'm OK with, as long as it is something reasonable. With a company who owns the service and owns the box, you have no idea on what they could do to the box. Zone off 50 hours for their use? Doesn't matter, you don't own it.
3) Most of the DVR solutions put out by the cable companies are bastardized versions of other products. Charter's DVR is a Moxio solution, and the original Moxio solution was an elegant piece of work. Charter's DVR, a complete piece of crap.
4) When I call for support, it's the same people that are lucky they know how to reboot my cable box. When I have a problem with TiVo, I call them, they tell me what's wrong, problem fixed.
5) I can buy a Tivo that allows me to burn shows to DVD without any issues. I can also move them to my PC with TivoToGo. Cable-provided DVR? Heck no. Never happen.
6) I can pass shows back and forth between two TiVo's, plus pull up MP3's and photos from my PC. Cable-provided DVR? Heck no.
7) The TiVo interface is nice and easy to use, it's easy to configured, and it's using modified Linux at its core. Cable-provided DVR, could be Windows Embedded, Linux, something else, who knows.
8) I just don't like the cable company enough to hand them more of my money. Whatever solution you use, you're stuck with them for its use. The TiVo, I can take it anywhere, and I could even get a third one to do over-the-air broadcast recording. Yes, they can do watch one/record one channel on the cable-provided DVR, though why would I want to watch live TV while I could watch it later from the TiVo? I already do watch one pre-recorded show/TiVo two others at the same time, so what's the big whoop?
9) When my TiVo breaks, I can still watch analog and digital cable. When the PVR breaks, nope, can't watch anything.
10) TiVo has been doing this for a few years, this is new territory for the cable companies, and they're only doing it to add revenue and convert the people who don't think Tivo is better.
Should I continue on, or have I been on the soapbox enough today?[/quote]
You forgot the fact that Tivo is cool enough to sell replacement remotes that match translucent blue Xbox controllers! Just what I always needed!