crankymessiah wrote:
] ] We've previously noted that Comcast was testing the PVR
] ] waters, but it looks like the rollout will soon be going
] ] full-force.
] ]
] ] Comcast is saying that 90% of their customers (millions
] ] of people) will have access to this Motorola box by the
] ] end of next year, and this device will serve both HDTV
] ] and DVR functionality. The box looks like it can pause,
] ] rewind, and fast forward both regular TV and HDTV
] ] siganls, though recording appears to be confined to an
] ] analog MPEG encoder and I would assume DVR functionality
] ] will be limited to regular TV, not HDTV. The box has more
] ] outputs than I think anyone knows what to do with, so
] ] it'll be interesting to see how the hacking community
] ] takes to this box. It only has one tuner and records at
] ] one set compression level, so hopefully it'll be able to
] ] store signals digitally instead of having to recompress
] ] everything.
]
] Finally.

too little too late. If you can't have at least dual tuners, there's not much point in having it. Even less without HDTV support, and you know that comcast will turn off the DVI outputs.

This just made my xmas much more interesting...