Over the weekend I found a really good price on an HD Tivo. Now, when I say "really good price," I actually mean, "on a level that I can rationalize." Anyway, my wife and I talked it over on Sunday and decided to pull the trigger on the HD Tivo. We both did a little dance of joy that we'll finally be able to walk away from the nightmare that is the Comcast DVR. Over the past three years we've gone through 6 DVR boxes, as well as innumerable crashes, lost program guides, frozen playback, and lost audio.
As if our current DVR heard our plans to take it out behind the barn and put it out of our misery, this morning my wife turned it on to discover nothing. And by "nothing," I mean, "nothing." All of our recorded programs were gone. All of our scheduled programs were gone. Our series priority list for recordings were gone. It was as if the unit were born anew.
To quote my wife, "As if we needed any more reinforcement that buying the Tivo was the right choice."
Things I won't miss about my Comcast DVR:
- The unit freezing when reordering the series priority list
- No audio on whatever HD channel was left on all night
- "Only record new programs" recording every possible repeat under the sun
- The unit freezing when deleting a viewed program
- Spontaneous reboots
- Finding the word "mute" on the screen if the unit was turned off before a scheduled recording. Best part, no "unmute" button on the remote
- Lagging behind on remote commands. There's nothing more fun than watching the DVR catch up to your repeated remote commands: "Skip, skip, skip, rewind, skip, skip, menu, delete!"
- Having a recorded program marked as "Delete priority: I delete" get deleted without my approval
