I’ve been meaning to write a post about my feelings on the comcast DVR after being spoiled with a DirecTiVo and a stand-alone TiVo. PVRBlog wrote up his experiance with his ComcastDVR.
His thoughts exactly mirror mine, almost to the sentence, except I don’t yet have a harmony remote for the basement setup. (I have a feeling i’ll get one for Chistmas.) Sarah just HATES the button lag, and, I have to say, its caused me a ton of grief as well. One of the follow-up comments also points out a problem I’ve seen with surround sound just dieing. A reboot fixed it for me as well.
I do have to say, watching TV in HD is a vastly different experiance. Its well worth most of the pain. However, I am crossing my fingers for the coming of CableCARD TiVos and whatnot.
My wife got annoyed enough about the button lag that she called Comcast about our 2 bugs. THe button lag, and the thing where you don’t get a picture when you turn everything on. You have to go into the DVR menu, start up a program, then exit out and the pic comes back.
The Comcast guy she talked to seemed somewhat knowledgable. He said they have seen both issues, but neither should happen more than “once a month.” He was suprised the picture issue happened EVERY time we turned it on, and that the key response issue happened at least every other day, he offered to replace both immediately.
He did reset the both DVRs remotely, and the picture issue has disappeared for now. Note that it also disappeared for a month or so after the last firmware upgrade Comcast did.