New Hd Dvr

**HDFreud** · 06-08-2007 08:17 AM

I got a call form Comcast last night on a promotion and they are coming to install the new Panasonic DVR on Wednesday. It is supposed to have USB working, play MPEG-2, etc.. Anyone have any experice with these yet? I'm afriad to get too excited.

**LonghornXP** · 06-08-2007 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by HDFreud

I got a call form Cocast last night on a promotion and they are coming to install the new Panasonic DVR on Wednesday. It is supposed to have USB working, play MPEG-2, etc.. Anyone have any experice with these yet? I'm afriad to get too excited.

I know that Comcast in New Hampshire will have these boxes available in late June or very early July so it wouldn't surprise me that other markets would get them a tad bit sooner like you. When your install is done please let us all know if you did get the Panny HD DVR and tell us how the iguide software is. Just keep in mind that if you get this new Panny HD DVR box it will have a brand new iguide software that at some point will be rolled out onto existing Moto and SA set-top boxes. The Panny boxes will just be the first to have it is all. This iguide should from what I hear be feature rich with great graphics and speed, speed and speed. I've been begging for this box forever but my local Manchester office hasn't got their shipment yet or they would have given me one to get rid of me. Hey that was their words but they said it in a very nice way though.

**HDFreud** · 06-08-2007 01:25 PM

I will give all a full report!

**willw** · 06-08-2007 02:36 PM

What Promotion did they talk you into?

**David_Levin** · 06-08-2007 02:48 PM

Does this put a wrench into TiVo plans to get a software load for the Motorola boxes?

**HDFreud** · 06-08-2007 03:17 PM

I get the box free for 7 months with no obligations, no contract, no extensions, no... and the regular $10.95 or 11.95 per month (I forget) after that.

**LonghornXP** · 06-08-2007 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by David_Levin

Does this put a wrench into TiVo plans to get a software load for the Motorola boxes?

Nope still coming to most of Mass and all of New Hampshire in August. I'm told its more like late July to early August timeframe.

**wdwms** · 06-09-2007 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by LonghornXP

Nope still coming to most of Mass and all of New Hampshire in August. I'm told its more like late July to early August timeframe.

I don't think the deployment will be "all of NH" as you mention... some of NH is a SA system and from my understanding the Tivo software was developed for the Moto systems only right now.

-t

**LonghornXP** · 06-09-2007 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by wdwms

I don't think the deployment will be "all of NH" as you mention... some of NH is a SA system and from my understanding the Tivo software was developed for the Moto systems only right now.

-t

Yes I should have said all of Comcast New Hampshire that has Moto boxes. If your living in New Hampshire and were an Adelphia customer before being switched to Comcast "and" you have a Scientific Atlanta HD or SD DVR you won't be getting the Tivo software until many months later. Last I heard that the SA port will start testing around the first of the year (year 2008 to be clear).