I can't wait, and by that I mean I will probable have fired comcast again long before they can release these, comcast release cycles being measured in decades. The Current Motorola dvr comcast has with MS foundation completely suck (we have two), the guide data for HD is totally useless, and the boxes are buggy as hell. At first I thought it was ok but the longer I leave with it the more problems I find, the db self corrupts, the guide data dumps on a reboot (which is needed a lot), the dam thing simple fails to record often or will only record a couple seconds of show. It has no error tracking or records. There is no way to even transfer your scheduled stuff so if you have 50 plus things getting a new unit represents hours of work and that is after it takes the POS DAYS to rebuild it's complete guide data. I switched from a direct tv HD tivo, and it had it's issues and certainly suffered from a lack of love. Poky as the UI was at least everything worked, it never ONCE failed to do what it was supposed to do, corrupted it's own data or just plain failed to execute. *sigh* Hell the dam things don't do anything useful in way of interfacing with MCE of course, and of the dozens of ports they have none of them work (probable thank comcast for that). My point? These things might be better they might not, cable companies suck, in fact all providers do, go OTA and bit torrent if you can.
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I can't wait, and by that I mean I will probable have fired comcast again long before they can release these, comcast release cycles being measured in decades. The Current Motorola dvr comcast has with MS foundation completely suck (we have two), the guide data for HD is totally useless, and the boxes are buggy as hell. At first I thought it was ok but the longer I leave with it the more problems I find, the db self corrupts, the guide data dumps on a reboot (which is needed a lot), the dam thing simple fails to record often or will only record a couple seconds of show. It has no error tracking or records. There is no way to even transfer your scheduled stuff so if you have 50 plus things getting a new unit represents hours of work and that is after it takes the POS DAYS to rebuild it's complete guide data. I switched from a direct tv HD tivo, and it had it's issues and certainly suffered from a lack of love. Poky as the UI was at least everything worked, it never ONCE failed to do what it was supposed to do, corrupted it's own data or just plain failed to execute. *sigh* Hell the dam things don't do anything useful in way of interfacing with MCE of course, and of the dozens of ports they have none of them work (probable thank comcast for that).
My point? These things might be better they might not, cable companies suck, in fact all providers do, go OTA and bit torrent if you can.