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Dish Network and Turbo HD
By jelly | December 13, 2008
Well I must say I’m very happy with Dish Network and Turbo HD. The receiver is top notch and responds very quickly. The DVR portion of the receiver is very easy to use and to configure and I prefer it over tivo in many ways. The benefits are mostly small little things but they fix alot of annoyances that I had with the tivo.
#1 When selecting a recorded program it has the option to start over. I don’t know how many times on tivo I would see resume, select that only to see that it was at near the end of the program then I would sit there and have to rewind it the whole way to start over or ffwd to the end then have to select it again from the list. This makes it so that I can start from the start regarless of where it currently sits.
#2 Search titles by content not just title. my wife has been using this alot. searching for christmas shows rated G, for our daughter. you can see all the specials and not need to know their names beforehand.
#3 Actually knowing how much room is left on the DVR. on TIVO when it filled it would delete shows however you never knew how close you were. on the Dish DVR it clearly states you have 20hours of HD 120 hours of regular remaining, then it will start deleting.
#4 Ability to watch recorded shows on two tv’s. When I’m banished to the basement, living with 3 women will do that. I don’t have to search for something on live tv, I can watch recorded shows down there as well.
#5 guide shows only subbed channels. Tivo shows them all, so I’d always see items in the guide I wanted to watch only to have it say you must subscribe to this channel to watch.
#6 volume of HD. Dish has so much HD programing its staggering.
#7 rating system. on TIVO I would have programs that had NR getting through the rating block I haven’t seen this yet on DISH.
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