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Originally Posted by bicker
I don't even understand why anyone would buy a TiVo HD when they aren't cable customers. It just doesn't make sense: So much of the cost of the TiVo is wrapped up in the cost to support CableCARD, that using the TiVo without CableCARD (and I know that there are some people who do) just doesn't make much sense to me.
The TiVo is in the same market as the $800 Moxi HD DVR, not the DTVPal DVR. |
Cable card costs are probably not as much of the cost of the Tivo as the cost of stripping the satellite tuners to make the DTVpal was. The current Dish
DVR does have dual
atsc tuners available for purchase and installation.
If all you want is to pause live TV the DTVPal will be great. Other than that for a few $ / week I don't see where you can campare the two. The life expectancy for the box should be 10 years plus for both units, if the hard drive fails (no reason to believe either is more likely to have that happen but that is all that is likely to happen after warrantee) both are easily and reasonably replaced.
I thought this was a
DTV forum as in over the air, Moxi is cable only. Another point for Tivo is that it has both
NTSC and
ATSC tuners so if you live in an area with a low power translator that is NOT going
ATSC it will work for that too.
So not to hijack the thread I started one for the Tivo
HD, any further comments will be welcome there.
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Thanks for a great post Jay!
