Just wish DirecTV would come back to their senses. Licensing couldn’t have been THAT onerous.

Anyway I stuck with DirecTV because their HD signals, while nowhere near the quality of OTA broadcast, still shame that of Comcast. I don;t even know how those guys can call it “HD”– it’s just awful, especially higher up the dial.

Agree that Comcast Motorola is crap. But it has NOTHING on the disaster that is the Scientific Atlantic 8300 that I have from Time Warner. The user interface looks like it was programmed in 1999 by a 1st grader.

–But for some stupid reason, I keep paying for it!

It is the first (and possibly only) example I can think of in the convergence media era of a product that got it right the first time, both in the hardware and the software.

I’m having the same problems with my Comcast DVR. It think that I’m actually on my 4th DVR in the time I’ve had Comcast cable (a little over 2 years).

I was going to try out the new Comcast TiVo stuff that they offer here in Boston, but have heard troubling things about it. ((Not too surprising that Comcast could find a way to screw up something like that.)

The main problem is that the browse menu only shows what’s on during one time slot. So if I am scrolling through channels, I only see one thing. I have to stop on that channel to see the next few programs.

The advantage of the Moxi is that if you know what you’re looking for, it works well — BUT if you like to sit down and browse after a long day of rewriting VOs and complaining about your station’s coffee maker, Moxi is not for you.

do NOT want.

Go buy a Tivo. Get either a TiVoHD or a series 3. You’ll love it. Other than the initial cash outlay, it’s a cost wash with the Comcrap box because you can turn that puppy back into the cable co. TiVo has already announced external hardware that will work when cable moves over to switched packet. About the only thing it currently lacks is OnDemand (which I don’t use anyway).

You can hook up to Amazon unbox for movie and tv rentals, watch podcasts, download music videos, view pictures, etc. The new boxes now support TiVo to go so you move shows to your laptop or stream to other Tivos in your house as well as move programs to external storage. If you need more than 30 hours of HD you can hook up an external SATA drive to the boxes now for more storage space.

Unless Comcast significantly speeds up their SDV rollout, TiVo is the way to go. Sounds like TiVo’s on board to get a USB dongle working with SDV, so that will work eventually. Comcast’s HD on-demand offerings are so poor, you’re not missing anything by leaving their box behind.

It has some things that are very counter-intuitive, but being able to watch a movie, pause it, and being able to then resume it in another room is verrrrry nice. Heck, we could be watching the same pre-recorded show at the same time and both rooms still have full ability to rew, ff, etc.

There are still a couple things I miss from TiVo, but six months later, we’ve adapted pretty well. And we don’t get the annoying “booka-booka” sounds every time we push a button.

I still use my Tivo (powered by Linux) with DirecTV, and I refuse to change because of the consistent instability of competitive DVR’s.