Toast, Moot

Random ramblings on moot, toast, and other errata of my life.

After a month of suffering (yes, suffering) with an “HD DVR” from Brighthouse, we’ve jumped back on the Tivo bandwagon. We thought we could live with the “yeah, but it’s not a Tivo” but we couldn’t.

I’ve had one of DirecTV’s Tivos for more than five years, and I guess we were just too used to using it and didn’t really want to switch, but I really wanted to see what my HD TV actually looked like with HD on it.

Most of the people I’ve talked to concerning the whole Tivo vs. DVR thing think I’m crazy, on paper they both do the same thing, but in practice there’s just no comparison. The DVR has been stupefyingly user unfriendly, buttons are in weird places, the menus are ugly and hard to understand, and it’s been practically impossible to search for programs.

The Tivo just kinda works like you think it should.

They must have that patented.

Jun
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