OT: I hate RCN's DVR

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Derek Martin <invalid-yPs96gJSFQo51KKgMmcfiw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 09:37:56PM -0500, Gordon Marx wrote:
>> I know this is OT, but this DVR is killing me. It's a Motorola DCT3416 from
>> RCN. I had the same DVR with Comcast and had no problems, but the RCN DVR
>> software seems to be much worse. The main issue is that it records multiples
>> of the same episodes of shows with the same descriptions, which fills up the
>> DVR and causes the DVR box to throw out higher-priority recordings. Oy. Does
>> anyone have any suggestions? (other than "suck it up")
>
> TivO.  I've had one for years, wouldn't watch TV without it.  When I
> was initially making the switch to Digital/HD (I had a Series 2), I
> used RCN's DVR for a while.  I hated it just as you do, and bought a
> TiVo HD within about a week.

One more option to throw in the mix: Moxi. I've got a buddy back home
who works for them on it. Its really quite fantastic looking. I'd be
tempted to go that route if I ever got tired of MythTV.

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Jarod Wilson
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