Note the sarcasm of my original post...... The "midrange" PVRs seem to be fairly stable, but their flagships never work as advertised. The original Dishplayer, the 721, the 921, and now the 622. ALL were highly anticipated, ALL were groundbreaking in one way or the other, and all were seriously lacking in the reliability department. Most had features promised that died on the vine. The Dishplayer was supposed to get updated games (Remember the great You Don't Know Jack games they had on them, the Doom shareware version, etc.). They wound up killing them entirely. The 721 was supposed to have internet access. Uh uh. The 921 was supposed to have firewire support. They killed that. The 622 held the promise of Solid Mpeg4 performance. We get faux Mpeg4 for some channels (Mpeg2 with Mpeg4 headers to make sure the 921 owners can't see it) to force people to upgrade.
We, the early adopters willing to spend $500-1000 for receivers keep getting hosed. I can't believe it is three months later and they can't even get the audio sync right. Do what they did with the earlier version... build in a 5 second buffer and be done with it already..... Live TV is unwatchable without reboots, skip backs (followed shortly thereafter by annoying dialog boxes when you wind up having to change the channel).
I tried watching Filmfest HD last night and gave up do to massive pixellation issues. There was a light rain here in NJ, but the standard channels were unaffected.
E*, we are used to you being the company with "issues" when it comes to reliability, but there has to be a minimum level of competency even by your standards. Although my 921 occasionally burped on a recording (ZSRs etc.), it always played it back just fine once it recorded it. The 622 aspires to be a 921 in playback quality (shudder) right now.
