Recent content by phenixdragon

I am tryign to decide if I am to leave Comcast and move to Dish or DirecTV. My programming with Comcast is about $77 just for basic and the expanded channels, which they also make you pay for Encore which I don't watch. Looking at the prices for Dish and DirecTV, they are much cheaper for the...

Well I have my DVDs ripped to .dvr-ms files which work great for MC but may not work on other setups. However, it's not hard to convert them to MPEG2 again and there is no quality lose since .dvr-ms is MPEG2. Just changing the container.

Last time was a few months ago. I just don't have a need for all of what it is. Media Center is just simple and basic. Plus either way. each still still requires a HTPC and I am looking to eliminate that.

Very cool then. The reason to use the 922 to watch my DVDs is because I then could just part out my HTPC and clear up space. All my media is on my Windows Home Server and not directly on the HTPC. But I could just use my 360 to view my movies. I do lose the cover art, movie details, trailers...

Curious. If you do do OTA, does that also add to the tuner pool? Where I live OTA signal isn't a problem. I am probably going to see about switching in a couple of months but maybe sooner. I don't mind products rushed out as long as fixes come pretty quickly. But right now I am still deciding...

Hm...what type of issues are being seen? I tried searching for some reviews but it appears there isn't many reviews out there right now.

Thanks for the replies. I may check out Dish network. Works case is I can keep my Media Center or use my 360 to watch my movies through. We will see though. But i did look at my bill with Comcast and for what I am paying now I wouldn't be saving anything going to dish, but I may still at least...

In your opinion XBMC is better, I have used it before and I think it is crap.

Today I was tiinking of switching to Dish and getting the VIP 922. I currently and running Media Center with CableCARD and love it but there are some things zi like about Dish, such as beinng Sling loaded. So a question I have about the VIP 922 is this. With Media Center, if I have multiple...