Comments on: Rant: The Comcast HD DVR Is Simply, Terribly Awful

By: Speedytech7

Speedytech7 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:34:00 +0000

LOL, it certainly does not use RAM, a cute thought though, I wouldn’t expect hardware knowledge from a Mac user so I don’t hold you accountable for anything you have written, technical or not. It uses a form of volatile, NAND caching with a hard drive supplement, your box had a common error caused by corrupted data, the hard drive clears to avoid issues later on. Enjoy feeding the beast countless thousands.
-Cheers

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:30:00 +0000

I recently switched to Comcast and Im very dissapointed. Its bad in every way. ATT Uverse DVR service runs circles around Comcast Infinity DVR service. Actually ATT UVerse is much better in many aspects, from ease of programming to the aesthetics of the menus and guides, to the fact that you can record up to 4 programs at one time. Unlike Comcast where you are limited to two programs recording at one time and then can only keep the tv on one of the channels you are recording.

By: air max pas cher

air max pas cher — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:30:00 +0000

Such a situation although I never met before, but it should is a
very depressing thing , especially the rare leisure time with his family
watching television together , but encounter such a situation , it should be the
most annoying thing .

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:52:55 +0000

Unfortunately, I'd have to agree 100% with this posting. I was a long time Comcast customer and I was very loyal to their service until I got an HDTV and they made it incredibly hard to upgrade. I was somewhat confused why they didn't appreciate me. Soon after, I began working at DISH Network and I decided to subscribe to their service. I can honestly tell you that I will probably never go back to cable, Comcast in particular. It was easy for me to use and even easier to get used too. I've had DISH for quite some time and I don't intend on switching service now. I invite people to come and check out the endless possibilities and continuous value they will receive with DISH Network!

*Danielle

By: looney

looney — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:56:27 +0000

and I thought it was just me! so glad for this post, it’s like a support group!
I found it trying to Google “how to recover deleted programs on Comcast DVR”. Loved my TiVo to death, but when I upgraded to Comcast extended basic, only 1 tuner worked on Tivo!!! The other tuner is analog. I felt lost without my 2 tuners so I decided to try the Comcast DVR. Talk about an ADVERTISEMENT for Tivo!!! I may bite the bullet for the second series of Tivo, but I do like a couple of things about the Comcast DVR – it goes back about 2 hours instead of just 1/2 hour on Tivo and it had a “jump” ahead 5 minutes button. Many shows I watch have a 5 minutes of commercials, so that button is pretty cool. Everything else is a poor rendition of Tivo though.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:43:19 +0000

Wow… I really dislike the comcast dvr. I have had comcast dvr service for about a year now. The program search functions are horrible and sometimes recorded programs crash (REALLY??) I used to have a Replay TV dvr and I’ll tell ya, It was dependable and had very good search features. WTF Comcast??? Do you really care about your customers?? If you did, we wouldn’t be bitchin’ about this, would we?

By: George

George — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:33:01 +0000

Huh, funny… mine works just fine for the past year. Never had a problem. Even after power outages my box comes right back on. Comcast has treated me pretty good for just being another customer. I work for Verizon FiOS, and I think our boxes have more than any I’ve ever worked with. Than again, I may have just got lucky and got the golden box.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:46:15 +0000

Comcast recently unveiled the myDVR manager to program the Comcast DVR online. This really helps improve their DVR service.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:39:27 +0000

funny, I loved my tivo just like you and hate my comcast DVD box I have now, but I would call my tivo my windows and the comcast the apple…but hah thats just I guess we’ve had different expereinces with the two…..I’ve NEVER had issues with my PC and my g/f’s mac has been through 2 HD’s, 2 keyboards and 3 mice in 3 years……but yeah, never had a virus!! hah neither has my PC.

By: Cray

Cray — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:02:32 +0000

After the new software upgrade that added folders in the dvr list of recorded shows, my dvr have been acting funny. whenever i fast forward a program and then press play, it does not play the show at the specific point i pressed play. It jumps back 30/60 seconds (varies) and plays the show from there.

Comcast says its a feature. A feature for people with slow hand-eye co-ordination. Are you !@#$ kidding me? If its a feature give us people who has nothing wrong with hand-eye co-ordination a feature to skip this feature.

Reading through the forums I find that I can reprogram my remote to do a 30 sec skip. But since this 'feature' also affects the rewind function and the time it skips varies, its really annoying. If this is comcast's idea of copying similar functionality from TiVO DVRs they really need to double check how TiVO does it (at best, it skips by 8 or so seconds not 30 and 60 at the highest FF speed)