On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:22:55AM -0800, Lan Barnes spake thusly: > My understanding is that current PVRs rented from the cable moguls can > handle multiple channels, but I don't know if there are digital > limitations to this. And of course, part of the Myth advantage is that you
Tivo has been out for many years and I am still without DVR. Not that I haven't tried. I don't really want to invest the time to set up a Myth box. And then you have to deal with cablecards etc. I had the Cox DVR for a while a few months ago. Man, that thing sucked. It was a VCR that recorded to HD. You had to manually set the times and everything. I was hoping for something with some more tivo-like artificial intelligence which would record the kind of stuff I typically watch and keep that HD full. No such luck. So back it went. Then we ended up dumping cable TV and getting satellite because it was cheaper and would allow my wife to get her Vietnamese channels. It had a DVR option also so we tried that. Even though the thing had an ethernet port on the back of it the guys insisted it needed an analog phone line. So back it went and now we have a standard satellite box. I really don't want TV in the house at all but the other people in the house require it. I figure if I'm going to have a TV I should have a DVR so that at least I watch only the good stuff and not commercials or spend time channel flipping. Alas, it was not meant to be. If I can ever get Miro to work on my box again I think I might just settle for watching stuff that way and completely skip the DVR. It's ultimately the way of the future anyhow. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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