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<needin4mation@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, you've convince me: I'm cheap.
>
> But I have decided I want a mythtv box instead of tivo or replay. I
> refuse to pay a subscription fee. I already pay for too much cable
> that I don't watch. I do appreciate everyone's answers.
>
LOL. I didn't wish to convince you of that at all, in fact i was trying to
impress how much easier life is made with the automatic program recording
and scheduling you get from the cable box dvr. I don't think any DVR with ot
without a hard drive that doesn't have both a smart program search guide and
dual tuners is worth a hill of beans.
Those are the two features needed in my opinion to really enjoy a PVR, DVR
or whatever they are calling it now.
Also let me give you an idea, call your local cable company, ask for their
DVR. Return your current box yourself and pickup the DVR from them, install
it yourself and they might even throw in a free month to try it. It won't
cost you a penny to swap boxes, use it for a month, two or a few to test it.
And if after 3 months, you are totally convinced you've changed your life so
much more, that you now have time to do more things, you can fast forward
commercials which saves me hours of time a week and pause live tv to cook or
answer phone or use bathroom etc, then just retuen it and go back to what
you had. Costs you nothing but the price a a happy meal at MCDonalds per
month.
In my opinion buying any equiptment nowaday, no matter how cheap, is a waste
of money since your tied to using that equiptment. And you don't want that.
You want to always have the latest for free! Renting gives you that.
My friend has DirectTV, he had to buy his own HiDef Dual Tuner DVR for $1000
2 months ago, he now owns that and if a new feature which requires better
hardware comes along, he is out the $1000 and needs to buy another box, if
he was renting like me, he would have gotten the new Scientific Atlantic HD
DVR for free, even swap, and no more monthly charges for HD programming
either as with some satillite co's charge. And in a year he could swap it
again if they make a mpeg4 box or whatever new technology comes along.
Renting this high tech gear is like legal stealing, you get the equiptment
use it and give it back for free!
What more could someone want, the extra monthly fee is like paying for tv
guide, it's been done for years now, nothing new paying for guide info, it
use to be a printed book now it's electronic, same thing.
Also tivo's and other DVR's that need to hook up to phone line and call in
every night for new data is NOT as easy as having the data transfer
instantly over the same high speed coaxial cable as the digital cable signal
is entering your home, even firmware updates to the box's software is done
occassionally automatically. they constantly add features.
The latest feature TimeWarner DVR added without telling anyone one was the
ability to skip ahead 15 minutes at a time using the left and right arrows
while fast forwarding or rewinding, this is great for skipping to the part
of a movie you want quickly. Plus the box remembers where you left off each
show at, that goes without saying.
It has screen saver that some DVR's don't have, so many features. Do the
test I told you, now matter how cheap you think you are, it will make your
life so much better, you will wonder how you lived without it! And you will
think wow, this was like going from a 9" b&w round screen to a 50" color ,
that's how much this technology affects how you perceive television watching
after you try it.
Not to mention, if you have kids, they can have their show being recorded,
your wifes show being recorded all the while you are watching something you
already had recorded now cause that's when you have free time.
AnthonyR
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