Pleh

Walter Mossberg, at the Wall Street Journal wrote a good article on Lisa’s and my current dilemma. No, not the bug thing — we’re still waiting for a string of three or more sub-50 degree days. We hate our current DVR: the very terrible Scientific Atlanta 8300HD from Cox. (If I were Atlanta, I’d be insulted.) The Series 3 TiVo looks yummy, but it’s very expensive: around $700 + $13/mo subscription. Do we get a great DVR at a high price or do we settle for the rubbish we have at a much friendlier price?

Of course, we could just wait for the Cox – TiVo partnership to bear fruit. I think this is our current plan of action, but I’m not sure how long we can hold out. When the partnership was initially announced, it was slated for launch in the first half of 2007. That translates into “June 30th, 2007, around 11PM EDT.” Now, when talking with people from Cox, I’m hearing that they’ve been told, “sometime in 2007″ and we all know that that translates into, “At the New Year’s Eve party, 2007.”

Can we put up with another year of Cox DVR-based agita or will we spend too much and get the S3? If I were betting, I’d bet the latter, but we’d really like to see if we can make it to the roll-out and then make a choice.

On the plus side, I find myself watching much less TV. On the downside, it’s tough to explain to our daughter that half of the episodes of one of her current favorite shows was deleted by the DVR, because it thought it was time. (With apologies to “The Simpsons”: “I am the angel of arbitrary. The time of deletion is at hand.”)

(As a side note, this post finds me back in Ecto. I’m surprised with how much I missed it when posting from Wordpress‘ built-in entry tool.)

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