Release 1.9 and the Whole House DVR
Finally came to Philly the other day. Very nice upgrade! The guide is cleaner and easy to use. And searches are easier and you can save your favorite searches. The DVR interface is vastly improved. Deleted videos are now recoverable. And with whole house DVR you can "tell" the DVR to record from any device in your home. And best of all, the DVR is expandable by adding an external eSATA drive. I added a 1TB WD drive and am very happy! And unlike TiVo, it doesn't treat the DVR drive and external drive as one drive (that is, on TivO, if you lose the external drive, you can lose all of your recordings). Whereas on the Verizon DVR, the external drive is independent of the DVR - the DVR records first on the external drive and only starts recording again on the DVR after it runs out of space on the external drive. I highly recommend an upgrade to the whole house DVR.