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CRB said: "When I read threads ... harping over the lack of Firewire (get over it already)" Get over it? Tell you what. I'll make you some promises, you give me $1,000, and then I'll only deliver on about half those promises. Sound good? If not, then you need to get over it. Dish...

The cable boxes doesn't do OTA in the way that Dish or DirecTV does OTA, but many cable companies carry the local HD channels so you get them as being a subscriber. In my case with Time Warner in Minneapolis, they carry my local PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX and UPN's digital/HD transmissions, so I...

I moved to Time-Warner in Minneapolis back in January and I regret it not one bit. Spending only $20/month more than I was with Dish, I get: a. Three receivers (1 HDDVR, 1 HD, 1DVR) instead of two (both HD-only) b. $325 from selling my Dish receivers c. All digital/HD locals (PBSx5, CBS...

smroycro: I do not have a complaint about bugs in my equipment or how it was hooked up. My 811 froze from time to time, but for the past six months it's been pretty stable. My 6000 has been fine. Not to mix metaphors, but it appears that DISH is running around like a chicken with its...

I also just left Dish a month ago and signed up for Time Warner here in Minneapolis, and it's been excellent so far! Just the day after they were introduced, they installed for me two SA8300 DVR's - one HD and one not - and an older SA3250HD box. They've been working quite well so far. The...

I did a switch to Time Warner, but I switched completely so I wanted everything from them. Can't speak to how to get them to give you just the HD channels. However, I can speak as to why someone wouldn't be happy with just an OTA antenna -- because it sucks in some regions! Even though I...

Timmernator: I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I've posted a few times about my experience having now switched from Dish almost two weeks ago, but I can't remember the thread. (I've actually posted on a couple of them.) In any case, I have two 8300's in the house now -- one HD and one...

I already switched to Time Warner and have been very happy so far. The 8300 DVR's are great -- I have two! Cost me nothing (not $549, not $749, not $999) up front, and the small monthly price for renting them from T-W would take me many years to match the price of buying HD DVRs from Dish --...

Fenwah: Just think, though -- $20/month takes 27 months which is over two YEARS to equal the $550 up-front cost of the now-discontinued 921. And because of the switch to MPEG4, the 921 won't even be useful that long. :-) I've had the 8300 HD DVR now from Time Warner for 48 hours and am...

Josem3: No, you didn't understand. First, the 8300HD can handle any programming, not just HD. I didn't mean to imply that you have to have one just for HD DVR'ing and one for just SD DVR'ing -- that's not the case at all. I needed two so the roommate could have his own DVR with his own...

JSanders: The FCC requirement doesn't address DVR's specifically. From my reading, it just mandates that if I want a box with Firewire, they are to provide one to me, but there isn't a requirement that it have identical funcionality to the DVR box. In any case, I now have two 8300's...

Update Time Warner came out and installed my service today. By a nice surprise, the two DVR's they brought out were both the brand-new 8300's -- one hi-def, the other not. The third box, which was to be a 3250 with firewire, was a 3250 but without firewire, so a unit with firewire is being...

From Scientific-Atlanta yesterday: "Scientific-Atlanta announced today the commercial availability of its innovative Explorer® 8300™ MR-DVR set-top. Time Warner Cable, the cable industry leader in the deployment of DVRs, is now initiating the deployment of Multi-Room™ DVR set-tops in its...

Dish on 1/6/05: "No other pay-TV company offers the innovative combination of HD and digital video recording (DVR) features with multi-room capability like the DISH Player-DVR 942." So myopic. From Scientific-Atlanta on 1/6/05: "Scientific-Atlanta announced today the commercial...

Nope, I won't be buying. In fact, I'm switching tomorrow -- not to DirectTV, but Time Warner Cable. Released at CES today, and being rolled out here in Minneapolis immediately, is the Scientific Atlanta 8300 multi-room, HD DVR. So, let's see -- it's HD, multi-room, and has Firewire that still...