Not just me that thinks this! I save up a ton of content over the week to watch on the weekends as well as shows I'm not properly watching for later review...One of the lovely little features about my Comcast HD-DVR is that is occasionally decides that I shouldn't waste my time recording all this stuff and completely wipes all of it's content...not just one corrupted show mind you but everything on the disk including all of my series selections etc...I have to say that this device really sucks, it's juddery, occasionally refuses to change channel for minutes on end 'forgets' the channel subscriptions I have basically every function it has it screws up in some way. But hey Comcast is a monopoly with one of the biggest political lobbying arms in the country. Yes, I am aware that I work for MS before anyone says anything...we get beaten up for every little software bug but this thing takes the biscuit!
Now I know that this stuff CAN work, I had a Sky DVR in the UK before coming here and it was faultless. It really is inexcusable that a consumer device can be quite so bad with seeming zero recourse (I called Comcast, they say *it just happens*). Of course the big wheeze is that with HD Cable the DRM means that you can't just buy a cheap off the shelf device for this stuff anymore...I hate Comcast! Rant over, to bed! Oh, and Tivo isn't an option right now due to my disastrous finances!