New TV config decissions

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

There's no way we're giving up the TiVo for Time Warner's piece of crap. It's more expensive and orders of magnitude worse functionally.

TW's DVR is not more expensive for service or equipment - not by a longshot.

However, I cannot argue with its absolutely sucky functionality. I got it so that I could have an HD DVR. But it only has 20 hours worth of HD capability. And, yeah, it sucks. But we kept our Series Two TiVo (240 Hours capacity, Lifetime Service) and have a separate feed (SD) going into it. But once you have HD, it is hard to go back to SD.

The DirecTV (which probably isn't as good as TiVo either) has 50 hours capacity on HD. The HD TiVo only has 32 Hours of HD recording capacity (I really don't care that it is THX certified - nothing broadcast is, so why do I care if the DVR is?!?), and it costs an arm and a leg ($800 straight from TiVo, I have seen as low as $650, but I have heard lower).

But the way I looked at it, I HAD to have an HD DVR - it was simply an issue of taking the least painful route. I would have preferred to have had the DirecTV option, but there were other mitigating issues (there was a long and painful thread on the subject).