Everything You Wanted to Know About HD-TV
I still live in CRT TV land. You know, the kind of TV that requires you to build an extension on your apartment’s TV nook to support its girth. I probably won’t upgrade to plasma or LCD or the-new-best-TV-thingy until a) my TV breaks or b) we move.
Still, that hasn’t stopped me from being curious about TiVo and HD-TVs and all the other new-fangled tele-gadgets. Alexandra offers a very thorough rundown of the state of Shaw’s HD-TV and PVR offerings:
The up-side: Shaw’s PVR is readily available, HDTV-friendly, and has a dual tuner — not features that are available in cable-ready TiVo units at the moment. The downside: it’s $577 after programming credits, which is $300 more than either the tuner-only unit OR than a TiVo unit with comparable capacity.
Coincidentally, I was looking at my TV and Internet provider’s PVR offering. Inexplicably, Novus doesn’t list it on their website, but their PVR starts at $850 (with some relatively small credit for Internet service). That struck me as highway robbery, so I’m leaning toward a standalone PVR+DVD recorder like this one.
