On 10/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marc Infield</b> <<a href="mailto:marc@infielddesign.com">marc@infielddesign.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was also impressed that they only charge $5 more for their DVR, are<br>they any good? I hope not, by the time you add up what I have<br>invested in parts for all my Myth learning it would end being DVR<br>rentals for about 10 years. :)
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No, the Comcast HD-DVR is crap. My sister has one and the storage
space is severely lacking. I don't recall off hand how many hours
it can store, but it's not much more than 10, if that. Also, they
seem to have a serious bug in them. If the DVR is powered off and
it is scheduled to record a show it will actually begin the recording,
but not display to the user that it is powered on and working. If
you then hit the power button while it is recording it will turn on and
display video so you can watch TV on the second tuner. However,
the second tuner is MUTED. I have yet to find a way to get it to
unmute other than turning off the DVR (which kills whatever recording
was in progress) and then turning it back on. Also, it clearly
has two tuners since you can record and watch at the same time, but I
also haven't yet been able to get it to record two shows at once.
If there's two tuners in there I see no reason why it shouldn't be able
to record two shows if I'm not using either of the tuners to watch TV.<br>
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