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My wife and I are ADDICTED to TiVo and are about to move and upgrade our television experience to HDTV. We are tempted to go with Time-Warner's package (TV, phone, internet) BUT want to keep TiVo versatility.... i.e.: season pass, high speed through commercials, etc. when we get to HDTV.What would you suggest?
And also, I have been visiting stores and am amazed by the bad std def picture on almost any set I've seen. The salesfolks blame the picture on the distribution amps they use. Faces look waxen. I'm not sure I could stand that - does it look better in the home or do you have to live with it as tax for the HD?
Should we wait for the next generation of sets? Will they follow the new year? Is the REALTA HQV chip that big an improvement (the mags RAVED and RAVED)? Are major improvements very close or a year or so away? I realize any point in time points to a better future, but, realistically, are we close to a new PQ breakthrough?
Thanks,
Bob
Follow Ups:
"Should we wait for the next generation of sets? Will they follow the new year?"--This is a tough one as things are changing. For example, DISH is now enshrouded with rumors of newer HD receivers featuring MPEG4 format, which will make current HD receiver offerings like 811, 921 obsolete. Exact timeframe? Unknown. People who paid near $1000 retail for 921 are understandably upset.
DirecTV and cable probably will need to do similar things in order to offer more HD channels in the future b/c current HD technology eats up so much bandwidth for them. Details are uncertain.
If I had to buy into HD DVR right now, I would probably just get the rental one until dust settles in next couple of years.
"And also, I have been visiting stores and am amazed by the bad std def picture on almost any set I've seen. The salesfolks blame the picture on the distribution amps they use. Faces look waxen. I'm not sure I could stand that - does it look better in the home or do you have to live with it as tax for the HD?"
Don't worry about the store SD quality. I've seen some truly horrendous SD PQ in most stores, and one can't judge anything by it. It's the poor rooftop antennas (usually very old) with poor cabling and signal splitters that feed 20 TV's at once. If you get a decent OTA antenna at home and decent digital receiver at home, HD will look fantasmic and even SD will look VERY nice.
HOWEVER, non-OTA standard def signal you get from DISH/DirecTV/cable will be heavily compressed, and yes some of these channels will look just as bad as in stores. Nothing you can do about this no matter what TV/receiver you have.
I just got my first DVR last night from Cox (rental) and it's HD Sci. Atlanta 8300HD. I am quite happy w/ it. The digital audio out even sounds better than my previous HD tuner by the same company.
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