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March 04, 2008

Comcast DVR Box Continues To Annoy

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If you're, uhm, fortunate enough to have a DVR box from Comcast, you've probably experienced some problems with it. If you've had one for a while like me, you're actually happy with it right now; previous boxes of mine used to die every few weeks, and the old firmware barely worked. Box #7 has worked fairly well so far, but I still am kind of in constant worry it will break again.

It's also slow and stalls and requires a power cycle every other week or so. And there's no group delete and there are these annoying "messages" that pop up and, okay, maybe I don't like the DVR all that much. I suppose the honeymoon over the fixes Comcast did make is over.

Chris Albrecht wrote about another problem: Some networks don't send the data for 'new' or 'repeat' episodes, so the DVR treats everything as new. Comcast says it's fixed; Albrecht says it's not for him. (Not fixed for me, either!) He has also written about key queuing, where the Comcast DVR stalls and then inputs all the button presses one after another.

All of this remains unfixed. Meanwhile, you can buy Slowskys merchandise. (Note to Brian Roberts: If I ever make it big, I'm more than happy to sell out and make commercials for you.)

Dear Comcast, Why is My DVR So Dumb? [NewTeeVee]

Posted by D-Mac at 12:10 PM | Comments (4)