Antonia Quinnett: I would switch to Dish. I switched from Directv because Dish is giving away a very high quality DVR for free. And whoever told you they can't record 1 program while watching another was sorely mistaken or they did not have a DVR. or theyhad a very early model when DVRs were relatively new.With the VIP722 which I have, that comes with their system, you can indeed record 1 program while watching another at the same time. In fact I can record 2 programs and watch 1 while that program is also being DVRd. The dish DVR gets very good reviews and is rated better than Directvs I can record an HD program and record SD programming at the same time while watching an SD program or I can watch the HD program which is being recorded, incase my wife is working and she wants to watch it later. I can record HD while watching SD. There are a lot of options available with the new Dish VIP722. In fact I can record up to 4 different SD programs at one time If I want to watch! a show during that time I do though, hoever, have to watch one of those recorded shows. I like DIsh HD so far. DO I likeDish Network as a whole? I don't know yet, but their DVR is quite nice in my opinion.It has 2 tuners in it. You can set it up as a 2 zone unit so you have different programs on 2 tvs in different locations or a single zone unit for one TV and use the PIP functionYou can not however record an HD program while watching another HD program. HD programming uses up a lot of bandwidth. It is very demanding on recourses. But not every channel is HD so it really is not that big of a deal. I dont think any of the DVRs can actually record more than one HD program at a time(at least not the ones packaged in systems from Dish or Directv). The higher end Tivo brand DVRs maybe. But their best is around $800. The Dish HD unfortunately is 10 bucks more a month. Right now it is free for 6 months then it goes up to 20 bucks a month, in a sense it is 10 bucks a month for one! year. SO for one year it will cost the same as directv. Afte! r that it might be more who knows you can always threated to downgrade your package or cancle your subscription. You just have to speak to someone in customer retention....Show more
Kiersten Clayburn: I would go cable. Cable will always have free service calls, and swap your DVR once it gets old. Customer service is there and as far as HD, Directv and Dish can say that they have all they want. The problem is that they only have a 720 signal, and not the true 1080i or 1080p. The 1080 is the true HD.
Adrian Paraz: Cable DVR's unfortunately don't have nearly the recording space as Dish Dvrs have. You can usually get up to 100 hours on a dish DVR and about 25 - 30 hours on cable depending on what you record. There is no upgrade for this the size they have is the size they have. Motorola/tivo boxes are right now only being tested in the New England area. Very few customers have them, it is mostly in house testing. There is no real word yet when they will be widely av! ailable. It will probably be a while if they are just now getting test units out. As far as the remote issue goes...I have no idea I have on of the new motorola boxes with the cable card on board and it works just fine...Show more
Wally Perrien: It depends on how many HD channels you want. Directv has more than anyone else right now. The $300 is a pretty good deal considering its like 100 channels of HD. The HD DVR lets you record up to 200 hrs of standard def or 50 hrs of mpeg 4 HD recordings. If you really dont want to pay the upgrade cost, you could just get the regular HD receiver for $99, but its really worth the extra $200 for the HD DVR.
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