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Cable DVR versus Directv or Dish DVR
Wondering if cable has caught up to the Directv DVR I have. On mine I can record two shows concurrently while I watch another one that is stored on the DVR. Can Cable do the same thing?
For mine I have two coaxial cables to the DVR location. If cable can do this does it also need two cables to the DVR?
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At some point I want to get a wide screen HD TV and after seeing my brothers Bigger ( meaning ugly on my house for the wife) Directv HD dish and all the cables, I started thinking maybe I should consider if Comcast Digital HD DVR service had matching features/capablities to Directv.
The article you pointed to suggests that the integration is not as tight as Directv, but that seemed to be referring to a standalone DVR.
I was at my brother in laws for Easter and he was showing me the on demand feature on his Comcast HD DVR. Seemed like a cool feature, but he quickly got lost on how to move from the on demand content to anything else on the system.
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Greg,
The new slimline 5 lmb dish is about 20% higher and is probably twice the width of the dual lmb dish. Because it is so much bigger and heavier it cannot be mounted from just the mast head plate like the old dish, but needs a tripod mount with braces. Supposedly the installers are instructed not to get involved in removing your old dish either.
One way around the tripod install is a chimney install which might work for me. Unfortunately for me my dish is up on the top of the gable on my 2 story colonial house, which is accessible from the adjoining garage roof (10/12 pitch). I had to give the last installer a pep talk of encouragement before he would try it 
I was hoping that there might be a reduction in the amount of cables coming into the house once SD goes away (maybe sometime after Feb 2009 ?) if you had all HD equipment inside, because it is my understanding that the proliferation of cables is partly due to the SD and HD feeds.
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