Quit throwing away your hard earned money on Comcast cable. You don’t need any cable service at all to get all of the benefits of a Digital Video Recorder (DVR). For all of you that have CUT-THE-CABLE or are considering it so that you can watch FREE DIGITAL TV over the airwaves which has better quality than anything that Comcast offers, then here is the MUST HAVE device for every household.
DTVPal DVR
The DTVPal DVR has no subscriptions, no fees, and no advertisements. It is the LEAST EXPENSIVE Over-The-Air DVR with no monthly that I am aware of. The DTVPal DVR can record TWO channels at the same time while you watch a 3rd pre-recorded program.
This dual-tuner HDTV DVR supports both HD and SD channels from your antenna signal. Satellite and cable are not supported. You can use pause, instant replay, and rewind on live programming. This no subscription DVR has a recording capacity of about 30 HD hours and 150 SD hours on its 250GB hard drive. These are pretty good estimates but can not be exact because the signal can change within a recording due to commercials and stuff. HD signals are stored on the hard drive in HD format and cannot be converted to SD to save space. The remote control that comes with the box includes buttons for 30 sec skip, 10 second replay, and supports four speeds of fast forward and reverse, slow motion, and frame-by-frame advance. It can also be programmed to operate your other devices like your TV, DVD player, and sound system.
One of the coolest features is the FREE electronic program guide (EPG) with up to 8-days of program information when TVGuide On Screen (TVGOS) is available. TVGOS is distributed by many CBS affiliates across the country, but is not available in all markets. You can check at www.rabbitears.info to determine whether TVGuide service is currently available in your area. If TVGuide service is not available, the DTVPal DVR EPG will display the more limited program information — typically 8-24 hours worth — offered by your local broadcasters via PSIP. If TVGuide service is available, but does not have information for a particular channel, then the PSIP information (i.e. 8-24 hours) from that broadcaster is shown instead.
All recording are performed with timers that are created manually or set through a program guide selection. When you select a show in the program guide, you can create a reminder or schedule a recording in that time slot: once, daily, weekly, or M-F. You have the same options when selecting a show with keyword search within the titles of the programs in the EPG.
The DTVPal DVR lacks some features found on subscription-based TiVo, DirecTV, and Dish Network satellite DVRs. Features absent from the product include comprehensive program information on all channels, advanced search functions, external storage expansion, multi-room viewing, guide filters / favorites, and the ability to transfer/offload recordings. Most notably, it relies on time-based recording rather than name-based recording; it does not know when a scheduled program has changed its day, time, or duration. It lacks the ability to record only new episodes and ignore repeats.
The DTVPal DVR has RF, composite (RCA), component, and HDMI video outputs; it has analog stereo and optical (TOSLINK) audio outputs. Output via component and HDMI is selectable 480p/720p/1080i through a menu. All outputs are active simultaneously and the box will downconvert HD channels to SD through composite and coax for older televisions. There is no Firewire output, and no way to directly download recordings from the DVR.
The DTVPal DVR comes standard with a 90-day warranty. I don’t usually buy extended warranties, but I made an exception in this case knowing I’m dealing with a 250GB hard drive that is not user serviceable. The $30 for a 2-year warranty seemed like not such a bad deal.
I love mine to death and don’t want to live without it. I got mine in January and it took less than 30 minutes to have it up and running. Smooth like butta baby!
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Comment by hitch mount bike rack — June 3, 2010 @ 9:54 pm
Something interesting happened yesterday, when I got home the bushes around the bushes around my house were crudely cut and my sat tv was not working. It turns out that the sat dish line was, presumably cut by people paid by my apartment building to cut the bushes on ‘accident’ however I noticed that it looks like only my apartment had the bushes cut in this little section of our apt buildings and they were done very very crudely. Uneven. and there are parts just hacked off. Now I am not accusing anyone of anything but… it doesn’t look like anyone is working on any bushes around the complex and when I came home today at lunch to feed my dog there was a minivan with a ‘Comcast Residential Service’ sticker on it in front of my apartment. This is really interesting because I quit comcast at my old apartment because they were terrible. They incorrectly installed my cable and kept charging me even though it wasnt working. But even after moving once I installed sat tv within a week when I came home some guy from comcast was looking at my sat tv dish and he asked me if I wanted to go to comcast. I said no obviously. The rental company encourages you to use comcast because comcast wired the entire complex and I think they paid off my apartment complex in order to get exclusive rights to the complex. They obviously feel they need to get every single customer. But could it possibly be that comcast has resorted to sabotage?
Comment by robert — June 22, 2010 @ 6:51 pm
Hi Robert,
I’m sorry to hear about your dish chord being cut. Can I interest you in and HD antenna that stays 100% indoors and an OTA DVR to go along with it?
But to your question of Comcast possibly resorting to sabotage, I doubt seriously if you could ever nail Comcast for officially sponsoring sabotage of alternate content delivery methods. The FCC has tried and was shot down by a court of appeals on the whole BitTorrent filtering fiasco. As with most other things in this world, if you follow the money you will usually find out who stands to benefit the most by getting you to switch back to Comcast.
It could be the Comcast field technicians who we know are underpaid, under-trained, and over worked and have to resort to ‘unusual methods’ to make ends meet like the one breaking into homes in Portland, or the one that robbed a check cashing store. Maybe the tech was trying to hook you up at a substantial saving like the ex-Comcast tech in Dekalb, GA.
If I had to guess, I would say that there is a contract in place between Comcast and your apartment complex owners which provides them with some kind of ‘kick-back’ in the form of a reduced bill, or a rebate, and I’m sure some free cable IF AND ONLY IF the apartment complex maintains a defined number of subscribers. Follow the money my friend and find out who stands to benefit the most. There you shall find your answers Grasshopper.
Comment by admin — June 23, 2010 @ 3:20 pm