You may be satisfied with imperfect technology and willing to accept less performance than your standard VCR, but millions of viewers are not.
The HR20 comes with a sizable monthly fee for programming and a monthly fee for leasing it. If your programming is nearly unwatchable due to audio dropouts, how long would the average customer put up with these imperfections? The HR20 is not a TiVo. It's a total piece of crap. The sheer quantity of bugs are so profound, it's in a league all its own. TiVo never had this quantity of bugs. Even the first VCR ever sold never had this many bugs. The HR20 is a total disaster.
The HR20, for many users, is riddled with audio dropouts, missed recordings, recordings that won't play back, etc. It can so adversely impact your HD experience that you'll wonder why on earth you ever leased it.
I won't have the HR20 until April 3rd but based on my experience with many people's home theatre "installations" I would bet many problems are caused by inferior cabling and an overall lack of knowledge on how to properly set up their systems. People spend great deals of money on inferior Monster cables because the stores and some mags push them, the problem is they're not shielded properly and in today's Wi-Fi, cell phone, blu-tooth covered homes this will wreak havoc on the equipment. I've also seen many homes with bad picture or sound due to dirty power.
If your set up isn't clean and the cabling is inferior all products will suffer, you'd be amazed what dirty power can do to your DVR, after all it is essentially a computer. Bad power causes chips to run hot and that will cause all kinds of bugs. I'd be interested in hearing from people who TRULY know what they are talking about with this unit, not just everyday "video-philes" who are really people with too much money and no real experience or people who work in the "Magnolia" department of Best Buy.
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You may be satisfied with imperfect technology and willing to accept less performance than your standard VCR, but millions of viewers are not.
The HR20 comes with a sizable monthly fee for programming and a monthly fee for leasing it. If your programming is nearly unwatchable due to audio dropouts, how long would the average customer put up with these imperfections? The HR20 is not a TiVo. It's a total piece of crap. The sheer quantity of bugs are so profound, it's in a league all its own. TiVo never had this quantity of bugs. Even the first VCR ever sold never had this many bugs. The HR20 is a total disaster.
The HR20, for many users, is riddled with audio dropouts, missed recordings, recordings that won't play back, etc. It can so adversely impact your HD experience that you'll wonder why on earth you ever leased it.
Avoid this product at all costs.
I won't have the HR20 until April 3rd but based on my experience with many people's home theatre "installations" I would bet many problems are caused by inferior cabling and an overall lack of knowledge on how to properly set up their systems. People spend great deals of money on inferior Monster cables because the stores and some mags push them, the problem is they're not shielded properly and in today's Wi-Fi, cell phone, blu-tooth covered homes this will wreak havoc on the equipment. I've also seen many homes with bad picture or sound due to dirty power.
If your set up isn't clean and the cabling is inferior all products will suffer, you'd be amazed what dirty power can do to your DVR, after all it is essentially a computer. Bad power causes chips to run hot and that will cause all kinds of bugs. I'd be interested in hearing from people who TRULY know what they are talking about with this unit, not just everyday "video-philes" who are really people with too much money and no real experience or people who work in the "Magnolia" department of Best Buy.