SteelersXL said:
I am scheduled to get one of these monstrosities this week. - are they really this bad as i am reading all these horrible posts.
should i not get it or go with dish network or tivo?
you have me real worried
Joe

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The negatives are way overhyped. I just upgraded my Zenith DTV1080 unit that is 5 years old HD.
I just installed and got this working after hearing all the negative. In fact, I heard so much negative I almost bought a Tivo HR10-250...glad I didn't.
Since I never had Tivo, I wouldn't know what I am missing.
I hooked it up, went through the setup, installer did a crappy job, they have to come back yet again...but anyway, I have one tuner working, forced an firmware upgrade on the unit.
It has been working fine now, recording what I tell it to, replaying back fine so far.
Menus are as fast as my Zenith unit was, just getting used to the menus and such, but overall I am impressed with the unit. It picked up on my OTA stuff after the firware update, called DTV activated the unit...all is well and picture is great.
I read so much garbage on here that maybe to some that are really picky and just used to the way Tivo was that are upset and ranting about everything.
I think DTV did a pretty good job with this thing. Yes, a few things it needs, but DTV keeps updating the firware and fixing issues and putting newer features in..so that is more than Tivo is doing.
Anyway, go for it. I bought one from a retailer on Ebay, showed up and is working fine so far.
I am happy considering what I came from.