2005-10-24, 08:35 AM
OK, yes, I admit it. I've been unfaithful. I just couldn't help it. The temptation was too great. So beautiful. So sexy. So slick. The blue background - discretely in constant motion. The white and green UI quickly zooming back and forth between screens. The thumbnail-sized video window always there at the bottom left. The "online spotlight" with some very promising video-on-demand services, games and more. It was just too hard to resist.
But boy did I get screwed. Only half of the channels had EPG data. Getting commercial detection to work properly was more or less impossible. FF/RW didn't work at all (except for DVDs where there where two speeds in each direction - x2 and x32 - both completely useless). But worst of all - it failed to record the latest episode of Nip/Tuck.
Now I won't promise that I'll stay faithful forever, I'm sure Microsoft will try to lure me in with something even more attractive within a year or so (Vista...). But Sub, you still have the most reliable PVR and as long as that is the case I will keep coming back (if you'll have me, that is...)
But boy did I get screwed. Only half of the channels had EPG data. Getting commercial detection to work properly was more or less impossible. FF/RW didn't work at all (except for DVDs where there where two speeds in each direction - x2 and x32 - both completely useless). But worst of all - it failed to record the latest episode of Nip/Tuck.
Now I won't promise that I'll stay faithful forever, I'm sure Microsoft will try to lure me in with something even more attractive within a year or so (Vista...). But Sub, you still have the most reliable PVR and as long as that is the case I will keep coming back (if you'll have me, that is...)
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Luck is just probability taken personally. (Penn Jillette)
