ncted said:
James,
How has it been? I know you are probably all depressed after last night's game, but let us know how your new toy is doing! I checked the local BB today. They said they would not be setting up any HR20s for display purposes. They did also tell me that several had been returned as DOA. This makes me a little leery of taking the plunge.
Ted
Ted so far so GREAT...No problems with the box....well I dont know how to classify this, Last night on espnHD (prison break recording on other tuner) we lost signal (first time with directv!) the box froze when the signal went out, I restarted the box, and it actually recorded prison break after the restart, so I only lost out on 2 minutes of Football, and PRison break. Also was showing my friend the new stuff, and he then commented that he will be going to cable after seeing that.
Dolby Digital works great, this box is solid, I am still waiting on my Local ABC to straighten its problem out.....I did have a caller I.d. problem (no notification, no log) but after the restart it came back. Mpeg4 is still young, and I can now see what people are talking about when they say stuttering video, it seems like out of every 16-20 frames, 2 may be missing, its not stuttering like start stop start, but just a little rough playback on live events like sports, but MPEg4 is still very young, and according to earl they are replacing their Hardware in each city right now, so we will see improvement. If you are still on the fence and are not comfortable I understand. I keep thinking this way, soon Directv will have alot of capactiy, and they are going to add ALOT (hopefully
). Also I have my locals in over the sat In HD, plus all my RSNs, plus Sunday ticket so it was a no brainer for me, but for you, make sure you are comfortable before you jump, my suggestion is jump! anything in specific you want to know ask, and also I will keep updating this thread this week as the t.v. season begins, I also want to point out that season link and all recordings have been flawless, and that also I have yet to have any limit issues.
and yes last night was horrible, the only thing I can think is that the game was a loss from the beginning with maybe cowher being very protective of ben, and not going hog wild on offensive plays, also our defense while respectable by keeping them out of the end zone, was banged up a bit (troy, and others) so I am thinking they decided to just fill the field with players and rest for the bengals game.
