Current Crop Of HDTV Recorders Compared

rbrander links to this "nice review of all the HDTV Recorders from the Washington Post: DirecTV's based on the TiVo wins for best interface, but Dish Network's gets a few nods. There's also a nice swipe ('...spectacularly stupid decision') at JVC's for allowing only (copy-protected) Firewire input to the one HDTV tape recorder on the market."

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Re:Washington Post likes TiVo?

[stratjakt]

Well, I don't need program listings, and why the hell should it require software upgrades? It's linux based, right?

I just want a box I can hit record on. I don't watch that much TV, I don't need it to recommmend shows to me.

Hell, I hardly need that. Everything on cable is repeated on a 4 hour loop. Miss tonights South Park? Don't worry, it'll be on again in another hour or so.

They're trying to sell me more than I need, and I'm not buying.

I just want a box that records video digitally, and allows me to archive it somehow, whether it's an ethernet port or DVD-R. And, I want to buy it for under 100 bucks with NO STRINGS ATTACHED.

I have yet to meet a Tivo user who isn't happy they bought a Tivo.

And I haven't met an iPod owner who doesn't think the scroll wheel is anything less than mankinds greatest technological achievement.

But I don't want or need an iPod either since a 20 dollar MP3 CD player does all I require.

I've never met a Harley Davidson owner who thinks that his bike is anything less than the greatest vehicle ever built. Fact is, from a purely technical/mechanical viewpoint, Harleys are tempermental piles of shit that are broken most of the time. But it's a status symbol.

iPod, TiVo, Harleys, Abercrombie and Fitch shirts. I don't need any of 'em.