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<blockquote data-quote="ixian" data-source="post: 694877" data-attributes="member: 54932">I've been using a HDPVR for years now (check the thread). I still use it....to record stuff. Went back to cable boxes for live TV before my wife killed me. It is absolutely still a &quot;tinker/hobby&quot; type project, and you need to be ready for that. If you are thinking that right now there is an end game, and after some work and setup you'll get to a point where it will be the all in one solution many of us dream of.....not the case. It's good. But not great, and definitely not ready for prime time. It &quot;mostly&quot; works, except when it doesn't. After a while you will end up like 99% of the rest of this thread - wondering why you bothered, and thinking, well, a cable box for live TV and the occasional recording isn't that bad, or expensive.Like I said, it's a great way, right now, to archive shows. Recording, especially with a first-class addon like 4TheRecord, works great. However, as a live TV DVR it's not reliable enough to where the non-tech heads in your house are going to want to deal with it. Trust me on this one.P.S. Also, just give up now on the idea that you can use either of the blasters built in to the HDPVR. Just take my word for it, you don't even want to bother going down that road. Save your sanity and spend $30 on a Microsoft brand MCE remote/remote dongle. You can use any universal remote with it, it will blast two boxes, and it's one of the few pieces of this puzzle I've found over the last two years that works, consistently, with little effort. Well worth the extra $30, BELIEVE ME.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ixian, post: 694877, member: 54932"] I've been using a HDPVR for years now (check the thread). I still use it....to record stuff. Went back to cable boxes for live TV before my wife killed me. It is absolutely still a "tinker/hobby" type project, and you need to be ready for that. If you are thinking that right now there is an end game, and after some work and setup you'll get to a point where it will be the all in one solution many of us dream of.....not the case. It's good. But not great, and definitely not ready for prime time. It "mostly" works, except when it doesn't. After a while you will end up like 99% of the rest of this thread - wondering why you bothered, and thinking, well, a cable box for live TV and the occasional recording isn't [i]that[/i] bad, or expensive. Like I said, it's a great way, right now, to archive shows. Recording, especially with a first-class addon like 4TheRecord, works great. However, as a live TV DVR it's not reliable enough to where the non-tech heads in your house are going to want to deal with it. Trust me on this one. P.S. Also, just give up now on the idea that you can use either of the blasters built in to the HDPVR. Just take my word for it, you don't even want to bother going down that road. Save your sanity and spend $30 on a Microsoft brand MCE remote/remote dongle. You can use any universal remote with it, it will blast two boxes, and it's one of the few pieces of this puzzle I've found over the last two years that works, consistently, with little effort. Well worth the extra $30, BELIEVE ME. [/QUOTE]

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