100,000 Rogers HDTV Customers
Rogers Cable Communications says that it now has 100,000 households subscribing to its HDTV service.
I think I’m customer 57,634 or something like that. Yup, living in the great white north means that Rogers is my cable provider. I don’t have a choice if I want cable - it’s Rogers or nothing. At least if I wanted satellite I’d have a choice of two: ExpressVu or StarChoice.
Anyway, being a Rogers customer isn’t so bad. Except that I don’t get Smallville in HD this season. And my SA8300HD PVR often doesn’t record shows that were supposed to record. Other than those rather glaring and annoying problems, I’m pretty happy. Though I hear TiVo is much better than Scientific Atlanta PVR’s, I can’t use a TiVo with my Rogers Digital service.
Anybody else out there have Rogers?
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November 25th, 2005 at 9:41 am
I’ve got the HD PVR from Rogers. SciAtl 8??? something. What I find annoying is: If you schedule a recording, but start watching it before it’s done, (1) there’s no quick way of playing it from the start. You have to rewind to the beginning, and look away so you don’t see stuff you don’t want to. One good thing is it just starts playing when it hits the start. So when you hear it playing you can safely look again. (2) When the show is done recording, no matter if you are still watching the middle, playback stops. Then you have to find it in you recorded list, and then fast forward through everything you’ve seen! There’s no playback from where you were. Very annoying.
November 25th, 2005 at 9:43 am
True enough. Betcha TiVo doesn’t do that!
November 25th, 2005 at 9:55 am
Bell ExpressVu does the same crap with their PVR dropping shows that should have recorded but it doesn’t bother.
They’re customer service is just as bad as Rogers but Bell has a company policy to always blame the customer, so it’s worse because to actually get them to take responsibility for something is almost impossible.
Welcome to the evil empire known as the CRTC where they believe that it is Canadian’s interests to take away their choice. Any political group that promises to do away with the CRTC and any and all limits on my choice including the choice to purchase american Satillite and removes those stupid Canadian content rules and stops funding the CBC will get my vote in the next election.
November 25th, 2005 at 9:57 am
Hear hear!
December 1st, 2005 at 12:50 pm
ours skips recordings all the time, you have to keep a close eye on what it is missing so you can get it later on a time shift channel. by the way, do any of you know of a way that I can transfer items from the pvr to another device, ie. PC?
December 1st, 2005 at 12:56 pm
The only thing I know is the copy to VCR, which probably isn’t what you want.