Direct Tv or Cox Cable HD and DVR?

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Michael,

We have been running HD Cox in my house since the fall of Voom. I have to
chime in and say "stay away", the pickings are slim, the DVRs often need
exchanging, and PQ is OK, but OTA HD is far better. I am working on my wife
to maybe switch to Dish and get some of the Voom channels back in the
bargain. The broadband service on Cox is good, though.

Jordan Meschkow
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine Tips List On
Behalf Of Michael M. Malkin
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:05 PM
To: HDTV Magazine Tips List
Subject: Direct Tv or Cox Cable HD and DVR?

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Guys,

Anyone have a user opinion on the relative merits of the above suppliers and
HD DVRs in the Phoenix area?

I've had Direct Tv for a long while, but in the MPEG-2 form, not MPEG-4, and
have received my local digital and HD channels OTA.

I'm considering whether to switch to Cox or upgrade my Direct Tv dish and
buy DTV's HD DVR.

The SD channels on DTV are awful, as we all know, but I'm most interested in
the HD quality of signal, compressed they may be, programming and DVR
experiences.

All user opinions are very welcome.

Many thanks,

Mike Malkin

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If the programming on Cox Phoenix's system meets your needs but you
are worried about the DVR, consider the TivoHD or Tivo S3 cable card
DVR. The DVR features are far superior to those provided by Cox.

I haven't used Dish or DirecTV for so long, my opinion is not useful.

Jeff

On 4/22/08, Jordan Meschkow <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
>
> Michael,
>
> We have been running HD Cox in my house since the fall of Voom. I have to
> chime in and say "stay away", the pickings are slim, the DVRs often need
> exchanging, and PQ is OK, but OTA HD is far better. I am working on my wife
> to maybe switch to Dish and get some of the Voom channels back in the
> bargain. The broadband service on Cox is good, though.
>
>
> Jordan Meschkow
> [email protected]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HDTV Magazine Tips List On
> Behalf Of Michael M. Malkin
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:05 PM
> To: HDTV Magazine Tips List
> Subject: Direct Tv or Cox Cable HD and DVR?
>
> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
>
> Guys,
>
> Anyone have a user opinion on the relative merits of the above suppliers and
> HD DVRs in the Phoenix area?
>
> I've had Direct Tv for a long while, but in the MPEG-2 form, not MPEG-4, and
> have received my local digital and HD channels OTA.
>
> I'm considering whether to switch to Cox or upgrade my Direct Tv dish and
> buy DTV's HD DVR.
>
> The SD channels on DTV are awful, as we all know, but I'm most interested in
> the HD quality of signal, compressed they may be, programming and DVR
> experiences.
>
> All user opinions are very welcome.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mike Malkin
>
> To unsubscribe please click: [email protected]
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But the Tivo units would tie me into the cable TV... I don't think I want
that yet.

Jordan Meschkow
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine Tips List On
Behalf Of Jeff Odell
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:16 PM
To: HDTV Magazine Tips List
Subject: Re: Direct Tv or Cox Cable HD and DVR?

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If the programming on Cox Phoenix's system meets your needs but you
are worried about the DVR, consider the TivoHD or Tivo S3 cable card
DVR. The DVR features are far superior to those provided by Cox.

I haven't used Dish or DirecTV for so long, my opinion is not useful.

Jeff

On 4/22/08, Jordan Meschkow <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
>
> Michael,
>
> We have been running HD Cox in my house since the fall of Voom. I have
to
> chime in and say "stay away", the pickings are slim, the DVRs often need
> exchanging, and PQ is OK, but OTA HD is far better. I am working on my
wife
> to maybe switch to Dish and get some of the Voom channels back in the
> bargain. The broadband service on Cox is good, though.
>
>
> Jordan Meschkow
> [email protected]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HDTV Magazine Tips List On
> Behalf Of Michael M. Malkin
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:05 PM
> To: HDTV Magazine Tips List
> Subject: Direct Tv or Cox Cable HD and DVR?
>
> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
>
> Guys,
>
> Anyone have a user opinion on the relative merits of the above suppliers
and
> HD DVRs in the Phoenix area?
>
> I've had Direct Tv for a long while, but in the MPEG-2 form, not MPEG-4,
and
> have received my local digital and HD channels OTA.
>
> I'm considering whether to switch to Cox or upgrade my Direct Tv dish and
> buy DTV's HD DVR.
>
> The SD channels on DTV are awful, as we all know, but I'm most interested
in
> the HD quality of signal, compressed they may be, programming and DVR
> experiences.
>
> All user opinions are very welcome.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mike Malkin
>
> To unsubscribe please click: [email protected]
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same
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Michael,


Just my 2 cents but I have had luck with DirecTV in that because I bought
the MPEG 2 Tivo DVR they gave me FREE equipment to be able to view their
MPEG 4 broadcasts. Their Hughes DVR seems to work very similar to the Tivo
in that you can FF through commercials.

I even get local HD on the dish and no longer use my OTA antenna.

They are working hard to get the bugs out of the MPEG 4 delivery and the
pixilation errors they had in the beginning are just about gone.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine Tips List On
Behalf Of Jordan Meschkow
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:17 PM
To: HDTV Magazine Tips List
Subject: Re: Direct Tv or Cox Cable HD and DVR?

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Michael,

We have been running HD Cox in my house since the fall of Voom. I have to
chime in and say "stay away", the pickings are slim, the DVRs often need
exchanging, and PQ is OK, but OTA HD is far better. I am working on my wife
to maybe switch to Dish and get some of the Voom channels back in the
bargain. The broadband service on Cox is good, though.

Jordan Meschkow
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: HDTV Magazine Tips List On
Behalf Of Michael M. Malkin
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:05 PM
To: HDTV Magazine Tips List
Subject: Direct Tv or Cox Cable HD and DVR?

----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----

Guys,

Anyone have a user opinion on the relative merits of the above suppliers and
HD DVRs in the Phoenix area?

I've had Direct Tv for a long while, but in the MPEG-2 form, not MPEG-4, and
have received my local digital and HD channels OTA.

I'm considering whether to switch to Cox or upgrade my Direct Tv dish and
buy DTV's HD DVR.

The SD channels on DTV are awful, as we all know, but I'm most interested in
the HD quality of signal, compressed they may be, programming and DVR
experiences.

All user opinions are very welcome.

Many thanks,

Mike Malkin

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