Before I had Directv, I had Dish. I was unfortunate enough to have one of their craptacular 522 dual tuner DVR's. The thing was easily the buggiest piece of electronics I've ever owned. Spending time reading through threads in the Dish DVR forum was a daily occurence for me, trying to figure out why mine was acting up all the time. Dropping audio, pixelating video, crashing, skipping timers were all par for the course fort the 522. It turns out most other people were having the same problems as I was.
Flash forward to now and I've had my R10 for about 4 months. In that time it's been flawless except for 2 strange crashes a couple months ago. Since then I've not even rebooted it. No missed recordings, no audio or video dropouts. I also noticed that it STILL has the same firmware on it that it had when I first took it out of the box.
Today I took a quick scan through the Dish DVR's forum. I don't know why, I guess it's kind of like driving by a car wreck. I just have to take a peek at the carnage. Anyway I see the 522 is as buggy now, maybe even more so, as it was when I had it. Oh yea, it's also at firmware version 2.53. When I got rid of mine it was at 2.35. This was 4 months ago! Keep in mind this machine has now been out for 2 years.
This and many other reasons are why I love my Directivo. I'll love it even more tomorrow when my HD-Tivo gets here
.
Flash forward to now and I've had my R10 for about 4 months. In that time it's been flawless except for 2 strange crashes a couple months ago. Since then I've not even rebooted it. No missed recordings, no audio or video dropouts. I also noticed that it STILL has the same firmware on it that it had when I first took it out of the box.
Today I took a quick scan through the Dish DVR's forum. I don't know why, I guess it's kind of like driving by a car wreck. I just have to take a peek at the carnage. Anyway I see the 522 is as buggy now, maybe even more so, as it was when I had it. Oh yea, it's also at firmware version 2.53. When I got rid of mine it was at 2.35. This was 4 months ago! Keep in mind this machine has now been out for 2 years.
This and many other reasons are why I love my Directivo. I'll love it even more tomorrow when my HD-Tivo gets here
.
