Comcast SA/Cisco DVR vs. Motorola DVR?

• 20 day guide
• custom favorites list
• 30 second skip (must add custom remote pgm)
• 15 second back skip
• 1 day front and back skip in guide
• Firewire port (a definitely techie feature that needs care and feeding, but it does allow
• dumping to external devices/computer)
• 1080i (not that the content gets close these days)
• 2 tuners will record two events at once
• special guide to see scheduled recordings by day
• VoD
• VoD selections are locally archived for 24 hours.
• USB port for pictures.

• can lose audio and occasionally video over HDMI at powerup. Leaving unit on helps.
• guide button ALWAYS goes to full guide.
• Pressing custom list always takes you to the lowest channel in the list.
• Buffer is small and variable. Never can tell how far back you can rewind or pause. Often it is 10 minutes or less.
• Loses scheduled events. Leaving unit on helps.
• Timers are sometimes unpredictable, ending 1 or two minutes early.
• Guide is often slow, taking up to 5 seconds to come up.
• Even in the guide, it often takes seconds to react to a button push
• VoD has limited DVR functionality, limited to pause and 2x FF/Rev.
• Button response in VoD is horrible, making it impossible to freeze on a particular point.
• tuner swap is hard to find and sometimes unpredictable in action.
• no PIP function, although buttons ae on the remote
• Off button gives warning if either tuner is recording (again, leave it on)
• runs HOT. Needs to be on top of equipment stack.
• Custom list runs strange when Comcast adds channels, often losing channels in custom list.
• Menus are often non-intuitive
• USB port is very limited and does not show full resolution pictures. Uninportant because every other device seems to have a USB port these days.
• Cannot handle New Episodes Only well and will record a cable show every time it comes on in the first week unless you leave it on the HD.
• Even then, it will attempt to record an entire recap marathon. Since the HD isn't that large, it will quickly fill. You need to manually go through and say "skip this one". This means that I monitor the scheduled recording screen daily. Add to that needing to look for dropped scheduled recordings, means I spend too much time on maintenance and also need to keep a paper list of what I am recording.

RocketFoot said:

Over all, I would like to keep the unit that is reliable, fast and expandable.
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That would be the DISH 722. It would be a no brainer for me, if it wasn't for the neighbor's line of 100 year old Maple trees.

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RocketFoot said:

jayn_j said:

Haha...that's what I used to have! Loved it, but got a better deal with Comcast Triple Play. Maybe they will bring Comcast Tivo to my area soon, it seems to have a few more features and a nicer UI!

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Yeah, I remember that.

Big thing to me is that Comcast HD has gotten noticably softer over the last year, while DISH has gotten crisper with the change to MPEG-4. The Comcast HD channels are not much better than DISH SD these days

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