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"DVR from companies"
Posted by Snidget on 09-05-12 at 08:31 PM
Or can you buy your own and use it with the provider?

Local Cable seems to only have slightly broken DVRs. Swaping them out doesn't seem to make any difference.

Does the equipment that Dish or other satellite TV come with actually work, or do they only have broken, glitchy ones with f'ed up problems.

Because at least with Cable I can go to the store on every day off I have and swap the thing out. I dunno if I'd like having to deal with someone having to come out to the house every week until I get lucky. Besides at least doing the drop off myself thing I can make sure I have whatever shows I want watched taken care of at the time I want. Not on someone else's schedule.

Oh, and I've tried picking one up from another town as they are open on Sat. there. Still didn't help.

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"RE: DVR from companies"
Posted by CTgirl on 09-05-12 at 09:09 PM
Let me guess, Comcast? Ours seem to have a 6 month life span before I have to swap it out. Didn't have that problem with U-Verse.


From Tribe's attic

"RE: DVR from companies"
Posted by Snidget on 09-05-12 at 10:21 PM
Time Warner.
"RE: DVR from companies"
Posted by foonermints on 09-06-12 at 00:10 AM
I just used them for fiber-optic internet.
The cable installer was a moron.
He initially ran the fiber optic cable through the middle of our 120' tall triple-trunked Shamil Ash tree, then wanted to run a ground wire from our electrical service to the roof peak of the house, then link it over to the roof peak of our detached garage right over our deck and patio.

I just said no, and to tear out everything he had already done, and to forget it. He finally did it the way I told him to, running the cable away from the giant tree, and using a water pipe in the garage to ground it all out.

Sheesh, you'd think I want our rat-hole to look like a pigsty?

"RE: DVR from companies"
Posted by kidflash212 on 09-06-12 at 02:39 PM
LAST EDITED ON 09-06-12 AT 02:41 PM (EST)

I had similar issues with Time Warner, had to go back three times when my DVR stopped working. First time, I got all the way home to open the bag and found the most beat up, scratched up DVR ever. And it didn't work. Learned my lesson to give it a once over before leaving Time Warner.

"RE: DVR from companies"
Posted by foonermints on 09-05-12 at 09:21 PM
I'm terrified of the future when my VCR croaks.

Chingawa!

"RE: DVR from companies"
Posted by dabo on 09-06-12 at 10:31 AM
I switched to Dish a little less than two years ago, and despite some complaints about the company itself, the quality of the DVR is stellar, no complaints about that. It does take a learning curve to get the hang of it, and heaven knows they dump a lot of religeous and sales stations your way, you have to block them all out on every TV if you don't want the clutter.

Still, you can block out the nonsense, which is wonderful. Much as I used to enjoy pointing and laughing at the Faux News and MSNBC idiots, I'm much happier now having them blocked, though I do miss Maddow and O'Reilly at times.

Still have the VCRs hooked up though I can't record anything on them now unless I convert to hi-def receiver/boxes. Still useful for playing my collection of tapes, of course. Though both kids are now grown and in college, got a lot of Disney on videotape, not to mention the entire series of classic Trek.

Anyway, the DVR is great. HD stuff eats more memory than other stuff, from their ads though now it seems their current DVRs come packed with more memory than mine has. WOO! I don't really believe that hype but it speaks to their commitment to quality DVR.

The biggest drawback of satellite over cable, bad weather can interrupt service on satellite more easily than on cable.

And don't believe the installer guys when you ask them anything, they don't really know.