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Originally Posted by Rich G
I was doing the exact same thing about 6 months ago. The salesman at the High-end tv store I bought my DLP 1080i Mitsubishi at said I'd be a fool to buy a DVR. Rent one form the cable company ($9.95/mo)
and if anything goes wrong, they come out and replace it for free.
Well My AS 8300 has been replaced 3 times, 2 for DVR failures. That is since January. If it had been mine, I'd be screwed, waiting, God only knows how long, for a factory replacement to arrive via Fed-X.
Wait till the technology settles down and gets cheaper.
I'd prefer to use the cable companies receiver/dvr and buy a Blue-Ray DVD recorder when they come out.
Good luck
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I had decided a few years ago getting the DVR service from my cable company was the way to go. Had a SA 8000 for 2 years, have had a 8300HD for 3 months now. Have several friends who went the same way. None of us have had that kind of luck! None of us have had to have out "rented" DVRs replaced.
Matter of fact, a friend who doesn't want to go HD until some future point just got TWC to swap his 8300SD or a 8300HD box; the HD box has a 160G drive, the 8300SD a 80G drive. TWC used to want to see a receipt that you really HAD a HD set, but they didn't ask me, nor did they ask him.