HD DVR Smackdown
Daughter the Second gave an HD Tivo to the Spousal Unit and me for Christmas and we got to open it early so we could beat the post-Christmas rush on cable cards. Did I ever mention that I have the best daughters in the history of the universe? I don't mean to burst any parental bubbles out there but the competition is closed and the winners have been announced.
Back to the point. The difference between Tivo HD and Comcast HD DVRs is like the gap between NFL football and intermural flag football. At a Division III school. Without football. Or intermurals.
It's such a treat to be able to quickly navigate screens, have the fast forward stop where I expect, have shows disappear when I tell the system to delete them, to have the system not crash when it's in the middle of recording. Little things like that.
Comcast needs to call up Tivo and pay whatever outrageous sum the Tivo execs can dream up to replace every single lame-ass DVR Comcast is currently foisting on their poor customers. Let this arrogant and ill-concieved (need I say failed?) experiment sleep with the fishes.
Sure Tivo no doubt asked for extortionistic fees years ago and at the time creating a DVR from scratch seemed so simple. Now, Comcast, you know that you can't just throw dollars at a technology problem and get a great result. Or even a modestly satisfactory result. One of these days we'll talk about why.
So. Love the HD Tivo. Good riddance to the Comcast POS DVR.