Well I finally got my TV. Yes I bit the bullet and bought a 47″ Vizio GV47L. The TV is beautiful. Standard def (regular) broadcasts are a little muddled – which is to be expexcted; but High def programming looks amazing!
Much to my shagrin, I had to ditch DirecTV. In my local area (Portland, OR), they only offer the local NBC and Fox affiliates in HD. CBS (KOIN) and ABC (KATU) are not offered by DirecTV. I submitted a waiver to get the LA (high def) feeds so I could watch primetime shows in HDTV, but both KOIN and KATU denied my request (which was all handled by DirecTV). I don’t get it. Why be a nazi like that? If there’s anyone who has any insight into how this HDTV – Satellite relationship works, please chime in.
So long story short – I had to go back to Comcast. Their DVR sucks compared to my Tivo I had with DirecTV. Hopefully Comcast will adopt Tivo’s UI soon. But one plus is that I got a cable modem which is much faster than the DSL I had before this.
If you don’t mind laying out a little extra dough, you can get an 80 hour dual-tuner TiVo box for $70. The TiVo service itself has gone up in a price a bit since we signed up a few years ago, but it’s still not too bad especially when considering how much Comcast’s DVR sucks.
Here’s the 80 hour dual-tuner box and pricing:
http://www.tivo.com/2.0.boxdetails.asp?box=series280hrDTDVR
– jim
The only problem with the Tivo you speak of is that it’s not high def.
TiVo does have a HD box, but it’s $600 — waay too much for this cat.
Thanks for the pointer though.
How much for tv set?
1899.
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