My Displeasure with the Home Media DVR

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Before I begin let me say that I love FIOS....it beats the competition by a mile.  My disappointment however, comes from the software that runs the Motorola boxes badged as the FIOS Home Media DVR.
When I first moved to my current apartment I immediately signed for for FIOS when I found out that it was available.  For three years before I got FIOS I was (and still am) a big fan of TiVo but I decided that it would make sense to try out VZ's DVR if it meant saving money and reducing the number of boxes connected to my TV so I gave the Home Media DVR and try and sent it back to VZ only three weeks after I began using it.
Two years later I decide to give it a try again because it was being advertised as a bundle that would save me some cash.  I figured that bugs in the software would have been worked out by now so I didn't mind giving it a try again.  Well I've had the box since Nov 08 and im almost ready to throw it out the window.  Many of the problems I experienced the first time I tried the Home Media DVR still exist and thats very disappointing!
Unfortunately, I'm stuck in a contract with this stupid box until Oct this year but you can bet I won't waste a moment kicking these boxes to the curb and replacing them with my TiVos (thank God I kept them).
Unlike the Home Media DVR my TiVo's do not:
- Arbitrarily fast forward when they want without my input.
- Fail to respond to input from the remote if not pointed directly at the box.
- Fail to recognize the input from the remote and do something else.
- Have clunky fast forward and rewind.  TiVo is smooth and refined.
- Have a tendency to jump to an entirely different folder after I delete a show in one folder.
- Have options that are un-clear when deciding if the user has to decide if he wants to cancel an existing recording to watch or record something new.
And finally, my TiVos never made me so sick with rage that I dreamed of ways to make it feel the pain and frustration it was causing me. 
As I've already said, I love my FIOS internet and TV service but the Home Media DVR has TOO MANY FREAKIN BUGS.  At this point I'm not waiting on wither VZ or Motorola to fix them; I'll just be waiting out my contract so i can send this damd box back to hell and place my TiVos back where they belong making me and my life much more happy. 
Rant Over!

Answer 1

Ya know, I like the fact that you can easily watch a show recorded on the Home Media DVR in another room in an instant.....But the negatives pop-up when you try to have any interaction with the box outside of stop and start.  If that show has commercials and you try to skip them the DVR has a really hard time understanding what the satelite box it telling it to do.  Then this odd problem I have with my box is that if im watching a show and I let it play straight through (not fast forwarding through commercials), it picks a point when it wants to start fast forwarding on its own and it doesn't stop.  So if I walk away during a commercial break its possible that when I return, it will have reached the end of the show.  (what the crap is that all about)
So while I like the instant satifaction the Home Media DVR provides in that sense, Its not enough to make me hate transferring a show using TiVo.