I missed the Family Guy season premiere …… and Comcast’s piece of shit DVR is to blame. I put my Tivo on the shelf almost 3 years ago in favor of Comcast’s DVR, mainly because it supported HD recording. For the most part the experience was passable with a few annoyances, but the alternative of analog + over-the-air HD recording with Tivo was never appealing enough to get me to switch back. When the original $800 TivoHD unit came out, I was all but certain to be stuck with the Comcast DVR for a long time to come.
Then last night, after recently being “upgraded” from the Microsoft built software to Comcast’s own “iGuide” software, the DVR committed the ultimate sin … it failed to record the Family Guy season premiere. That is unforgivable and I will now promptly go out and purchase the “cheap” version of the Series 3 TivoHD unit and badger Comcast for 2 cable cards (or 1 “M” card) and be done with their awful iGuide software for good.
