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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

If we are away from home I can set my home DVR to record any TV show I could record if I was at home. There is an app for that!

Yeah, that's super cool.

Comcast needs to get it together. Not only can you not currently setup recordings over the 'Net. (well, they may be rolling that out in some places, but not Houston)

They just "upgraded" the software on the DVR that we were using (up until last Fri). The new software looks like it was programmed by the same folks that do the TV Guide Channel. The new software sucks! We'd had problems with a couple of items that we recorded via the DVR. One was a movie that would show that it recorded 2 hours, but would stop at 30 minutes saying that was the end of the recording. Also, the new software was REALLY slow. You had to pause in between pressing buttons because it would only get the first button.

I'm glad we've got DirecTV. It seems to be a huge improvement over Comcast (that actually was OK up until recently). One of the things that I really like about DirecTV is that the boxes are all networked in the house, so we can record on the DVR and watch the recording anywhere in the house. Even doing the thing that they show on TV where you start in one room and move to another.

The ability to schedule recordings remotely (via Android, iPad/phone/pod, or the 'Net) is pretty cool too.