TV Update

[licensed2hench]

TiVo no longer supports satellite at all.
Which is weird because DirecTv purchased TiVo a while back.

DirectTv has there own version of a DVR - who knows how good it is though.

So options:
DirecTv - with HD DVR. No TiVo avalible.
Verison FiOS - with HD DVR, or HD TiVo via cablecard.
Time Warnner Cable - with HD DVD, or HD TiVo via cablecard.

Comments

[daeglan]

spinright.

tell you what. if you agree to purchase a license I will bring my copy and we can try it while we game. just plug the drive into a desktop. and we can give it a run.

[licensed2hench]

No thanks.
1 - game is not at my house tonight - it is at Tads.
2 - I would not have time to do computer repair stuff tonight anyway
3 - I am not going to buy a license $80 to diagnose a HD problem when odds are it is a damaged power supply, that will cost another $120 to fix.... on a device that I can replace for $100

For now we will go without any tivo.
Possibly without an TV at all, while I figure out which service I want to go with.

[daeglan]

not a damaged power supply. it is failing on boot. If it were a power supply it would not turn on. I can tell you what happened. The hard drive lost power during a write. A common problem with Tivos that spinright successfully fixes 90% of the time.

[licensed2hench]

K, thanks for the info.

I still don't want to spend $80 to fix it if I am just going to buy a new one anyway. (Not sure what I am going to do just yet, If I could upgrade to HD Tivo with DitrecTv I would do so righ now. But I can't so.....????)

When I have time, I will try to cluge together a test PC and see what some disk diagnostics can tell me. A quick disk fix would be nice. But I am not going to count on it.

Till then it is just going to have to wait.

[poeticdragon]

Not TiVo is not an option. Brand loyalty ftw.

CableCard FiOS sounds fine. Lets get on it.

[poeticdragon]

Oh, and Time Warner can suck my balls. Fuck their shitty internet, and fuck their cable tv.

So far <3 FiOS. And HD will be <3.

HD Direct TV

[ext_85855]

I hated when Direct updated to proprietary hardware. I had a Sony HD Sat. receiver(No DVR) for seven years and I had to upgrade to their box or loose most of my HD signals.
That being said I've had the Direct's HD20 DVR receiver (their standard) for a little over a year now and it works great, It's easy to use, and the picture quality has been awesome. It does season record, all the trick stuff.

Just in case you wanted to hear for someone who actually made the switch.

Michael Dean
Jedisparky@earthlink.net

Re: HD Direct TV

[licensed2hench]

Thanks for the info.

We will be going for the TiVo setup.
We both prefer the TiVo interface.
Plus the series 3 is the only DVR (that I know of) that supports external hard drives for additional storage.

Re: HD Direct TV

[licensed2hench]

Thanks for the info. After switching I can say this:
OMG!!!! I LOVE my new TiVo! Specifically the functionality DirecTV goes out of their way to disable.
Being able to watch my TiVo on my PC in worth it 100%

I can watch my tivo shows on the e-pod (a pc I haver set up on my elliptical trainer).

I wish I had switched years ago.
The only downside is I notice some of the channels on FiOs have some "noise" occasional glitches in the image. But this is on specific channels (scifi) so I think it is at the back end rather that in the fiber or tivo.

Final Verdict:
DirecTV: 3 thumbs down
TiVO: 3 thumbs up
FiOS Internt:3 thumbs up
FiOS TV: 3 thumbs up