I am looking to upgrade my HT3000 decoder to a PVR to replace my old DVD recorded which does not work in HD, but everywhere I look it seems the offerings in NZ are nothing but trouble.
I was looking at the new Homecast offering but after all the problems with my HT3000 I am reluctant to go there again. TiVo looked awesome but that too is having its share of reliability issues (I don’t care much for the on-line content anyway). When MagicTV came out it seemed that finally someone had made a quality product that was reliable, but alas reading these forums that does not seem to be the case as again they are full of so called ‘bugs’ that keep needing to be fixed.
I am beginning to think that Freeview is more hassle than its worth right now, and you need some kind of an IT degree and a couple of spare hours each week just to keep the thing upgraded and running (I am reasonably IT literate by the way).
Does anyone make a PVR that just works without all the hassles of firmware upgrades (which seem to create just as many problems as they fix), system crashes and restarts etc etc? Jeez even my old laptop is more reliable than these things!
Any recommendations?