Comments on: “12 Gizmos of Christmas”: #2, HDTV http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3860 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:50:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jim Frost http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3860#comment-89078 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:23:06 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3860#comment-89078 If you're interested in HDTV products, the only one that I can recommend so far (outside of TVs, and there are a lot of good HDTVs) is Tivo Series3. I've been using an ATSC receiver for years, but only for limited kinds of content like sports. With the Series3 I am pulling in HD content from both ATSC and cable and watching it many times more often. I had a Motorola DVR from my cable company but it was one of the worst consumer electronics devices I had ever used, in pretty much every dimension. So, even though it could record HD (and sometimes it even got a clean recording!), it was not used very often (an SD Tivo hooked up to the same TV, however, was used all the time -- it would appear that we liked Tivo way more than we liked HD). The Series3 makes HD useful today in a way that nothing else I've used does. The thing is bloody expensive, but then again so was my HDTV, and I didn't even use it for HD very much before the Series3. If you’re interested in HDTV products, the only one that I can recommend so far (outside of TVs, and there are a lot of good HDTVs) is Tivo Series3.

I’ve been using an ATSC receiver for years, but only for limited kinds of content like sports. With the Series3 I am pulling in HD content from both ATSC and cable and watching it many times more often.

I had a Motorola DVR from my cable company but it was one of the worst consumer electronics devices I had ever used, in pretty much every dimension. So, even though it could record HD (and sometimes it even got a clean recording!), it was not used very often (an SD Tivo hooked up to the same TV, however, was used all the time — it would appear that we liked Tivo way more than we liked HD).

The Series3 makes HD useful today in a way that nothing else I’ve used does. The thing is bloody expensive, but then again so was my HDTV, and I didn’t even use it for HD very much before the Series3.

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