If your locals look like crap that's too bad, mine look great, maybe because I don't have more money than sense to buy an HDTV..
The 6412s are great but used. How's that 2nd/3rd/who knows how many hands receiver working for ya?
SBC sounds cool, though I'd rather see them startup their own dish company if they want to do that. OTOH, I'm sick and tired of all these wannabe services starting up and then either not bothering at all in making decent software for their boxes or just using Micro@(#*%&@%#..
Hehe, as for AT&T..
Why are cable users so damn zealous anyway? That's the second time now I've gotten a screen-full from an over defensive 6412 using customer. Really though, if I want to ignore all the other receivers out there, great.. Our two 322s have been MUCH more reliable software wise than our cable line has been (which seems to go out once a week in this town). Yes, Comcast cable at that..
The 2224 they supplied me is a piece of junk. If you want to channel surf, then you surf the channels THEY want you to surf or press the FAV button like a dummy, though it was a pain in the butt to program anyway.
The guide was slow as hell, the "flip bar" was opaque and the full width of the screen, and goes blank if you change channels too fast, and all OnDemand had was either shows I had already seen or shows I didn't really CARE to see.
The OS looked like a 16bit GUI microsoft's software "designers" whipped up in 20 seconds, and the box was about as big as 2 322s even though it was only good for 1 TV and had a whimpy MIPS32 processor.
See? I don't just care about "Picture Qualtiy" or getting a free ride on a box that I have to pay $10 a month for and get handed like it's stolen property (off the back of a white van or something) -- that part of Comcast always irritated me.
Shoot, everything even as far as the remote seemed poorly thought out and had about as much R&D put into it (IMHO) as a Dell. See?
So the comcast guy drops off a naked and well used 2200-series box and hooks it up via coax, it didn't even have S-video out -- an option comcast claims only exists on their DVRs that cost $9 a month instead of $5 PER TV not per each 2..
Shoot the first install, the guy tried to give me a used remote.. you don't know who's touched that thing! EEEWWWw
What's so wrong about the whole "user experience"? I don't just want 893247 channels with a picture so great I could stare at the screen until my eyes were fried and my brain as well and still not find any pixelation (in reality you see pixelation anyway), I want to be able to flip as fast as I want, and have a sleek little box that doesn't look like it was sitting in the adult section of a movie store or something .
