Planned obsolescence at its finest
Written: Jul 17 '06
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Pros: It will be replaced.
Cons: Poor menu.
Freezes often.
Super slow guide display.
Season pass setup takes forever.
The Bottom Line: Do not even consider this receiver, it should have never made it into mass production. Very poor.
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Rarely comes along a consumer electronics product riddled with so many inadequacies. The only logical explanation is planned obsolescence. If you select “record” while watching a program, might as well go for a walk around the block while it does the setup. Oh, you want a season pass? Better make it 5 blocks, and no need to hurry. You’d think it would actually continue playing the program so you could watch it while it goes through its inexcusably long setup time, nope.
Menu system often picks the least likely option as the default. Menu is overall poorly designed. In normal playing mode, the picture freezes for about 5 seconds once every 5 minutes or so.
Recorded programs are automatically deleted to make room for new records after they age, that makes sense. What does not make sense is that it favors programs it records because it “thinks” you might be interested over programs that you specifically ask it to record.
Most annoying of all, displaying the program guide is so slow. If the cost were fifty buck, it would rate 1 star, and three hundred plus, it rates less than zero. This is one of those products that make you wonder how it ever made it into mass production.
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Amount Paid (US$): 300
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