My husband and I purchased our original Direct TV satelite dish and receiver from Best Buy about 5 years ago.  We had been cable subscribers for too many years and were tired of the poor reception and customer service.  We were like kids with a new toy it was such an improvement over the old cable with so many more channels.   Next we were finally able to get Direct TV ...

Today, the big thing is TIVO.  If you can afford it, it is probably the way to go.  for my family's purposes, Time Warner's DVR serves our needs.Maybe it is just because I am so use to Time Warner and have had such good service from them that I am happy with the DVR.  I know this is not the case for many people.I just know that the few people around here which do have TIV...

While I love my Tivo I absolutely hate the DVR that my cable company (Time Warner) supplies me with.  While Tivo has a lot of bells and whistles the Scientific Atlantic DVR is very basic.  The DVR will record what you tell it to (most of the time), you can pause live television, but the quality of the picture after where you have paused it is terrible.There are is no alphabetic search...

This DVRhas it's ups and downs. It does the basics it records channels, lets you set up recordings and series recordings. You can also search for certain programs and record sporting events.There are many things i don't like too. I can only view channels a week ahead of time no futher. This limits if i see a commercial and want to watch something, i have to remeber untill a week ahead o...

This DVR has it all, a dual tuner to support two different televisions, HD programming on your primary television and SD programming on both, 55 hrs of HD storage and over 350 hours of SD storage. The model is black and a bit chunky, but that's expected and the remotes are virtually identical to the previous SD dual tuner remote.I love having the benefit of a dual tuner ...

Since Verizon is currently offering a 3 month trial of their DVR services, we decided to take advantage of it and sign up for an HD-DVR set top box. It took just moments to set up and figuring out how to use it was very easy because the interface is made so that you can navigate around quickly and provides numerous options so you can find exactly what you'd like to do. One thing I noticed w...

All you comcast users be careful of this one. I have had a lot of problems with my DVR and I am not happy being that I count on that machine! I have had to call Comcast numerous times because it is not recording, says it is full and can't record anymore (even though there isn't anything on it). Comcast has replaced it twice and I am now waiting on the thrid one (they are out of them in ...

When I got Dish Network, the first thing I made sure I had was a DVR. TiVos are pretty expensive and the Dish DVR service is perfect. It doesn't have all the fancy internet features as TiVo but it works for me. Anyways, back to the remote. Its pretty simple and self explanatory. I've had the remote for a little over 18 months and you still read most of it. I use it everyday, so usage is pretty ...

About a year ago, we decided to upgrade our DIRECTV receiver to a DVR system- we'd had DIRECTV for about a year, and were very happy with them. We were able to upgrade for free (with a 2 year contract extension, of course!), and we currently pay nothing for the service as it is included in our channel package. I am so happy we decided to get this DVR! It is so easy to use, my 5 year old kno...

I wasn't sure about getting a DVR, but once we had it in our home I was hooked!! I love being able to pause, rewind and fast forward live TV!! With kids in the same room it's sometimes hard to hear or see what is on the screen, so if you miss something you can always rewind and view it again!! Also, I hate commercials so I pause the screen for 10-15 minutes while I do somethin...

OK I have to admit I was wrong about this product. My family tried to talk me into getting one of these years ago and I said no. I said why would I need that? I have a VCR to record shows if I want to, this would be a waste of money. Now I say, how did I ever live with out this? I like to watch TV, always have, always will. I have my daytime talk shows, my soap, and my evening entertainmen...

I first became aware of Tivo as soon as it was put on the market. I was told about it by someone who took part in the manufacturing of it and all I heard was how amazing it was. Though I listened, I wasn't impressed or interested. A few weeks later, I saw it in action for myself and I was totally amazed. At that time, I didn't fully know what it was capable of doing. After being sh...

I love to watch movies.  I'm sure most people do but I have grown tired of renting movies and then having to return them or even outright buying movies.  It seems like some movies just aren't worth $19.99.  So I had the brilliant idea of purchasing a DVD recorder.  I thought that it would be great to record movies from HBO or any other channel and burn them on to a d...

My husband installs Directv and Dish satelites. We opt'ed to go with Directv because we felt they were better. I feel considering my dear husband installs these on a day to day basis that we had a better end of the deal, because we knew about both companies. We have never had a problem with Directv. Their customer service has always been wonderful, when we've needed them in the past. We...

Do you have a busy schedule and no time for your favorite shows? Well, Tivo is for you! I purchased Tivo for my boyfriend for Christmas back in 2006, so the price has changed. We were always missing our favorite shows because of our busy schedule and sometimes we just plain forget. Tivo has features to remind you. You can program your favorite shows under season pass and Tivo will automatically...

We've had cable television for as long as I can remember, but when we moved into our new home, we decided to give satellite a try. We hooked up DirecTV and so far are very pleased with the results. Our biggest concern going into it was whether it would hold up during rainstorms. It doesn't rain very often in South Carolina, but didn't want to have to worry every time clouds started ...

DishDVR from Dish TV is a very handy piece of technology to have. You can record 100 hours on it. This allows the user to be able to watch shows later when they have time. Its also handy if you dislike sitting through commercials because it allows you, upon playback,  to fast forward through the commercials or skip them one commercial at a time. Another handy thing about this recorder is t...

When we purchased our HD TV a few years ago we decided to upgrade our Time Warner Cable DVR to the HD DVR.  Having the HD DVR allows us to watch certain channels in high definition. The HD DVR always allows us to record two shows at one time while watching one of the shows recording.  There is a problem that we seem to encounter whenever we try and record shows in high definition. At ...

We rent this box as part of our cable. This box gets overheated very quickly. It also has a very short lifespan. We have had this box for less than six months and already it needs to be replaced. It was working fine until the rewind feature went wacky. When we rewound live shows, the quality went down hill and we could see the squares and boxes of the picture. Now it is recording all shows this...

The offer of a free DVR made me go back to DirecTV.  I loved my orginal TiVo but after I disconnected my home phone line, it was pretty much useless.  I got my firt reciever and by the second day it was giving me problems. It could no longer display my local channels.  After calling DirecTv's customer sevice, I had a replacement in just a few days.  The new unit looked a...