In article [email protected],
"Jack Stringer" wrote:

To all of you who are looking to TiVo because you really have no choice....
If you are a COX customer, The Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 is now
available or coming soon.

You must not have read any of the reviews from folks that have suffered
with trying to use the SA 8000. Lock ups, incomplete records, glitches
on playback, spontaneous reboots, unfriendly user interface, missing
much of the functionality of a DirecTivo. No reasonable person would
call it a real choice.

If you dont believe me, just do a Google search, and you'll quickly see
I'm understating the problems of the SA8000.

In article [email protected],
"Jack Stringer" wrote re SA8000:

I do not believe it is upgradeable.
Cost is about $15 per month including Guide programming.
It's a rental, so you don't own it but then you can upgrade to the latest
version as they come out.

Don't they also charge you a few bucks a month for a remote?, Now add on
the cost of your Cable bill, and you'll be well over the cost of a
DirecTivo for an inferior unit. Then if you want a 2nd unit its
$15/month for the bedroom, where as DirecTivo would be $4.99

In article [email protected],
"Jack Stringer" wrote re SA8000:

I do not believe it is upgradeable.
Cost is about $15 per month including Guide programming.
It's a rental, so you don't own it but then you can upgrade to the latest
version as they come out.

Don't they also charge you a few bucks a month for a remote?, Now add on
the cost of your Cable bill, and you'll be well over the cost of a
DirecTivo for an inferior unit. Then if you want a 2nd unit its
$15/month for the bedroom, where as DirecTivo would be $4.99

In article ,
"Kevin Weaver" wrote:

He may be paying 15.00 a month. But he is getting the guide info also
Tivo guide Info Is 12.95 a mo. All Its costing him Is 2.05 a mo.
Plus the fact there Is no buying the unit 300-400 bucks for a tivo.


DirecTivo is now down to $99; and no one ever mentions that most Cable
Companies also charge you a monthly fee for your remote control.

In article ,
"Kevin Weaver" wrote:

He may be paying 15.00 a month. But he is getting the guide info also
Tivo guide Info Is 12.95 a mo. All Its costing him Is 2.05 a mo.
Plus the fact there Is no buying the unit 300-400 bucks for a tivo.


DirecTivo is now down to $99; and no one ever mentions that most Cable
Companies also charge you a monthly fee for your remote control.

Yeah DirecTivo. Mayne he cant get Directivo. Like myself. Too many trees.

"Peter Cremel" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Kevin Weaver" wrote:

He may be paying 15.00 a month. But he is getting the guide info also
Tivo guide Info Is 12.95 a mo. All Its costing him Is 2.05 a mo.
Plus the fact there Is no buying the unit 300-400 bucks for a tivo.


DirecTivo is now down to $99; and no one ever mentions that most Cable
Companies also charge you a monthly fee for your remote control.

Yeah DirecTivo. Mayne he cant get Directivo. Like myself. Too many trees.

"Peter Cremel" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Kevin Weaver" wrote:

He may be paying 15.00 a month. But he is getting the guide info also
Tivo guide Info Is 12.95 a mo. All Its costing him Is 2.05 a mo.
Plus the fact there Is no buying the unit 300-400 bucks for a tivo.


DirecTivo is now down to $99; and no one ever mentions that most Cable
Companies also charge you a monthly fee for your remote control.

In article ,
Peter Cremel wrote:

In article [email protected],
"Jack Stringer" wrote:

To all of you who are looking to TiVo because you really have no choice....
If you are a COX customer, The Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 is now
available or coming soon.

You must not have read any of the reviews from folks that have suffered
with trying to use the SA 8000. Lock ups, incomplete records, glitches
on playback, spontaneous reboots, unfriendly user interface, missing
much of the functionality of a DirecTivo. No reasonable person would
call it a real choice.

If you dont believe me, just do a Google search, and you'll quickly see
I'm understating the problems of the SA8000.


I guess the SA 8000 is competition for TiVo the way a Vespa is
competition for a Lexus. Both will get you around.

The next thing will be people citing those cable-industry Dishes Suck
ads I've been seeing (especially on West Coast local TV), in which some
schmuck attaches his ratty-looking dish to a crooked stick that waves
in the wind, and then he complains the dish doesn't work right.

In article ,
Peter Cremel wrote:

In article [email protected],
"Jack Stringer" wrote:

To all of you who are looking to TiVo because you really have no choice....
If you are a COX customer, The Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 is now
available or coming soon.

You must not have read any of the reviews from folks that have suffered
with trying to use the SA 8000. Lock ups, incomplete records, glitches
on playback, spontaneous reboots, unfriendly user interface, missing
much of the functionality of a DirecTivo. No reasonable person would
call it a real choice.

If you dont believe me, just do a Google search, and you'll quickly see
I'm understating the problems of the SA8000.


I guess the SA 8000 is competition for TiVo the way a Vespa is
competition for a Lexus. Both will get you around.

The next thing will be people citing those cable-industry Dishes Suck
ads I've been seeing (especially on West Coast local TV), in which some
schmuck attaches his ratty-looking dish to a crooked stick that waves
in the wind, and then he complains the dish doesn't work right.

In article ,
lid said...

The next thing will be people citing those cable-industry Dishes Suck
ads I've been seeing (especially on West Coast local TV), in which some
schmuck attaches his ratty-looking dish to a crooked stick that waves
in the wind, and then he complains the dish doesn't work right.

Is that any worse than DTV touting their "superior all-digital" channels?
It's a business and they all lie to sway the uninformed their way.