This Boston-area blogger’s post (via) about the fustercluck he’s experienced trying to get the Comcast people to install the TiVo software on his DVR is the second one I’ve read that gives the firm impression that the service really isn’t ready for widespread distribution. The tech who came to his house brought multiple DVRs with him because he knew going in that the software works better with some hardware than others, meaning it’s an acknowledged support issue…meaning it must happen on A LOT of boxes.
It also sounds like there are some hardware-software disconnects on the UI side. Slow response to input causing lots of frustration for the viewer is exactly the one thing you don’t want and that TiVo’s own hardware does so much better than the DVRs Comcast uses.
So I think we’ll probably sit on our hands for a while and live with the standard Comcast DVRs until Comcast works out all the kinks enough that they take the service national, probably six months to a year.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
Since you cannot click a [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
