July 23, 2005

0 min Recordings

I have a DVR from Comcast (motorola). I have two listings in the recorded programs list that indicate channel 0; 0 min in length. I cannot play or delete either. Is there a way to remove them?
--Tim

July 23, 2005 in Comcast | Permalink | Answers (2)

November 12, 2004

Digital Ready TV Capture Card

I have Comcast digital cable and have been thinking about getting a Tivo since the PVR Comcast offers in not available in my area, but I would rather make my own PVR so I can playback DIVX and XVID also.  Does anyone know of a Hybrid or Digital TV caputure card, and if so how well does it work?
-- Jason

November 12, 2004 in Comcast, Hacks, TiVo | Permalink | Answers (1) | TrackBack

October 14, 2004

HD DVR options for Cable Customers?

The vast majority of america's tech community has the same question: I am a cable customer today, and want to use HD services from the cable company WITH DVR capabilities. What can I do?

Details: Comcast keeps delaying their own Motorolla DVR boxes, and the early units are getting poor reviews. Tivo hasn't (won't?) come out with an "open format" HD DVR to plug into the back of a cable box. Panasonic, Sony, and a bunch of small vendors are pitching HD DVR's (many with MSFT's new Media Center OS), but it's unclear if the cable companies block all, some, or none of these from supporting HD recording?

I'm in the middle of a massive home media center upgrade, and am totally frozen right now because of this -- I don't want to switch to Direct TV because they don't have local HD signals, Comcast isn't going to solve this soon because their DVR isn't close to TIVO quality, and the open format strong brand-name HD DVR's don't seem to work with cable. What is my best option?
-- Byron Deeter

October 14, 2004 in Comcast, DVR, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (10) | TrackBack