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The plan had been to replace our Sony HD200 receiver with one of the HD Tivo's when they came out. We time-shift a lot of network programming, and are fortunate enough to get HD OTA for all stations.
It drives my wife and I both crazy trying to remember to tape our shows for the night, on two VCR's if there's an overlap, and then watch the substandard playback later. Sounds like a job for Tivo, right?
Well, as much as our HD200 annoys us with rebooting and losing the Custom settings with power loss, it does some things very well. The receiver quality is very good, and it will pass a native signal to the TV. Our TV is a Pioneer Elite, and has a better stretch mode and line-doubling/upconversion than the receiver (or most anything else).
The other nice thing about the HD200 is the ability to accept our cable input. My wife in particular loves having antenna, cable and satellite all on one program guide.
It drives my wife and I both crazy trying to remember to tape our shows for the night, on two VCR's if there's an overlap, and then watch the substandard playback later. Sounds like a job for Tivo, right?
Well, as much as our HD200 annoys us with rebooting and losing the Custom settings with power loss, it does some things very well. The receiver quality is very good, and it will pass a native signal to the TV. Our TV is a Pioneer Elite, and has a better stretch mode and line-doubling/upconversion than the receiver (or most anything else).
The other nice thing about the HD200 is the ability to accept our cable input. My wife in particular loves having antenna, cable and satellite all on one program guide.