Until they manufacture and my local redneck cable provider uses an HD DVR capable of 50 hours or more of HD recording capability then its 100% moot for this consumer. I understand their complaints on hardware costs, but they also seem to go out of their way to prevent consumers from baring the costs via external hard drive attachments.
For instance, the Scientific Atlanta solution allows for external hard drive attachment. Both DBS providers have HD DVRs where external drives can be used. Yet, my local redneck cable operator (a Comcrap franchise) continues to use old inflexible Motorola junk.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Until they manufacture and my local redneck cable provider uses an HD DVR capable of 50 hours or more of HD recording capability then its 100% moot for this consumer. I understand their complaints on hardware costs, but they also seem to go out of their way to prevent consumers from baring the costs via external hard drive attachments.
For instance, the Scientific Atlanta solution allows for external hard drive attachment. Both DBS providers have HD DVRs where external drives can be used. Yet, my local redneck cable operator (a Comcrap franchise) continues to use old inflexible Motorola junk.