Megazone is wrong Part II
 

He says the SA DVR is crap.

Here's what someone who actually owns one says.

I just got Time Warner Cable's High-Def DVR, the Scientific Atlanta
8000 HD. First unit crashed. The second one works perfectly. Picture
is good to excellent, and recording is a snap. 160 GB hard drive,
providing 20 hours of HD or 180 hours of SD, (not both). No upfront
cost, just the $10 a month fee.

Sounds like they swapped out to a new box. I guess Megazone was wrong
about those hardware costs being so high that cable companies would be
slow to replace hardware. Comcast is on their second box in less than
a year too.

Poor Megazone. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

Has anyone seen Megazone and Mike Ramsay in the same room together?

Sean

Megazone was wrong
about those hardware costs being so high that cable companies would be
slow to replace hardware. Comcast is on their second box in less than
a year too.

What was wrong with their first box?

In article [email protected],
Lenroc wrote:

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:06:27 -0500, Sean wrote:

I just got Time Warner Cable's High-Def DVR, the Scientific Atlanta
8000 HD. First unit crashed. The second one works perfectly.

Wow, so now they're shooting 50%. Some news.

Call up and get the new SA8300

"Jack Zwick" wrote in message
...
In article [email protected],
Lenroc wrote:

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:06:27 -0500, Sean wrote:

I just got Time Warner Cable's High-Def DVR, the Scientific Atlanta
8000 HD. First unit crashed. The second one works perfectly.

Wow, so now they're shooting 50%. Some news.

Call up and get the new SA8300

Sean none shaped the electrons to say:
He says the SA DVR is crap.

Yep. My parents have one, I've used it.

Here's what someone who actually owns one says.

Yippee. You found one positive review. There are a number of reports
online of boxes dying, deleting all recordings, etc. And even if it
works for recording, the UI is crap, the worst I've seen on a DVR -
including other cable DVRs. (I'm talking about the SARA software,
which is on most of the boxes. Some of them have Pioneer software,
which is better.)

I've never said it doesn't work - it is just a very, very basic DVR
with a bad UI. The UI is basically the same UI used on the non-DVR
Explorer series cable boxes, with recording features glued on.

Sounds like they swapped out to a new box. I guess Megazone was wrong
about those hardware costs being so high that cable companies would be
slow to replace hardware. Comcast is on their second box in less than

You're really a dip****. Replacing models with newer models is not
the same thing as replacing a *broken box*. No one has ever said that
cable companies won't replace a dead box.

Has anyone seen Megazone and Mike Ramsay in the same room together?

Yeah, at CES.

We all know that the only think you care about is HDTV. You'd be
happy with anything as long as it recorded HDTV. You're a one trick
pony.

-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762
--
URL:mailto:megazoneatmegazone.org Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me.
"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-755-4098
URL:http://www.megazone.org/ URL:http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Eris

"MegaZone" wrote in message
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Sean none shaped the electrons to say:
He says the SA DVR is crap.

Yep. My parents have one, I've used it.

Here's what someone who actually owns one says.

Yippee. You found one positive review. There are a number of reports
online of boxes dying, deleting all recordings, etc. And even if it
works for recording, the UI is crap, the worst I've seen on a DVR -
including other cable DVRs. (I'm talking about the SARA software,
which is on most of the boxes. Some of them have Pioneer software,
which is better.)

I've never said it doesn't work - it is just a very, very basic DVR
with a bad UI. The UI is basically the same UI used on the non-DVR
Explorer series cable boxes, with recording features glued on.

Sounds like they swapped out to a new box. I guess Megazone was wrong
about those hardware costs being so high that cable companies would be
slow to replace hardware. Comcast is on their second box in less than

You're really a dip****. Replacing models with newer models is not
the same thing as replacing a *broken box*. No one has ever said that
cable companies won't replace a dead box.

Has anyone seen Megazone and Mike Ramsay in the same room together?

Yeah, at CES.

We all know that the only think you care about is HDTV. You'd be
happy with anything as long as it recorded HDTV. You're a one trick
pony.


Game, set, and match.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:29:06 -0600, "Rick S."
wrote:


Megazone was wrong
about those hardware costs being so high that cable companies would be
slow to replace hardware. Comcast is on their second box in less than
a year too.

What was wrong with their first box?

Worked OK but it didn't have multiple tuners or the newer software.

So, Comcast is replacing them for free.

Amazing, since according to Megazone each box costs $800
each.

Sean

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:08:34 +0000 (UTC),
(MegaZone) wrote:

Sean none shaped the electrons to say:
He says the SA DVR is crap.

Yep. My parents have one, I've used it.


Apparently they are too incompetent to know how to dial a phone and
request a newer model.

Too bad they don't have any relatives who know anything about DVR
technology.

Sean

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 02:46:29 -0800, "eric" wrote:


"MegaZone" wrote in message
.. .
Sean none shaped the electrons to say:
He says the SA DVR is crap.

Yep. My parents have one, I've used it.

Here's what someone who actually owns one says.

Yippee. You found one positive review. There are a number of reports
online of boxes dying, deleting all recordings, etc. And even if it
works for recording, the UI is crap, the worst I've seen on a DVR -
including other cable DVRs. (I'm talking about the SARA software,
which is on most of the boxes. Some of them have Pioneer software,
which is better.)

I've never said it doesn't work - it is just a very, very basic DVR
with a bad UI. The UI is basically the same UI used on the non-DVR
Explorer series cable boxes, with recording features glued on.

Sounds like they swapped out to a new box. I guess Megazone was wrong
about those hardware costs being so high that cable companies would be
slow to replace hardware. Comcast is on their second box in less than

You're really a dip****. Replacing models with newer models is not
the same thing as replacing a *broken box*. No one has ever said that
cable companies won't replace a dead box.

Has anyone seen Megazone and Mike Ramsay in the same room together?

Yeah, at CES.

We all know that the only think you care about is HDTV. You'd be
happy with anything as long as it recorded HDTV. You're a one trick
pony.


Game, set, and match.



I know, but until he stops posting such drivel I'm forced to continue
this usenet thrashing.

Sean

Sean none shaped the electrons to say:
Apparently they are too incompetent to know how to dial a phone and
request a newer model.

Adelphia Cable in their area offers one box, at least as of a couple
of months ago. I haven't checked again more recently.

Too bad they don't have any relatives who know anything about DVR
technology.

Their experience with the SA8000 was so bad, it has soured them on
DVRs. Now they think that DVR == complete ****, after their box had a
hardware failure and needed to be replaced. Then the new one up and
deleted all recordings one day, just because. And the UI is so bad
that they weren't even really using it until I visited, sorted it out,
and then wrote out the instructions - since the 'manual' Adelphia gave
them was *wrong*, and the remote they were given didn't even match the
examples. Yeah, cable companies are fantastic.

I'm one referal away from a free TiVo, I may get a 140-hour box and
just give them my 40 S2.

-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762
--
URL:mailto:megazoneatmegazone.org Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me.
"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-755-4098
URL:http://www.megazone.org/ URL:http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Eris

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:59:04 +0000 (UTC),
(MegaZone) wrote:

Sean none shaped the electrons to say:
Apparently they are too incompetent to know how to dial a phone and
request a newer model.

Adelphia Cable in their area offers one box, at least as of a couple
of months ago. I haven't checked again more recently.

Too bad they don't have any relatives who know anything about DVR
technology.

Their experience with the SA8000 was so bad, it has soured them on
DVRs. Now they think that DVR == complete ****, after their box had a
hardware failure and needed to be replaced. Then the new one up and
deleted all recordings one day, just because. And the UI is so bad
that they weren't even really using it until I visited, sorted it out,
and then wrote out the instructions - since the 'manual' Adelphia gave
them was *wrong*, and the remote they were given didn't even match the
examples. Yeah, cable companies are fantastic.


Comcast has a menu option where you can select short videos on how to
do common DVR tasks as well as a video FAQ.

Another area Tivo falls behind.

Sean

"Lenroc" wrote in message
news:[email protected]
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:39:36 -0500, Sean wrote:

Comcast has a menu option where you can select short videos on how to
do common DVR tasks as well as a video FAQ.

Another area Tivo falls behind.

TiVo's UI is elegant enough to not need video "help", and this is somehow
a failing for TiVo?


Some idiot would need a video to know how to use a DVR? Now, that is
rich...