For us, there are benefits and drawbacks for both. We went from DirecTV STB to Mediacom TiVo. Maybe it's time to shell out more $ to get back to that experience. I may try switching to TiVo even though it'll be more expensive - I was a TiVo user from 1999 on DirecTV (until DTV kinda dropped them in ~2006) and I loved it. In general, my experience with TW video has been worse than with DirecTV. The UI is, IMO, pretty crappy, though that's probably more of a personal preference. It periodically freezes for no reason and requires me to pull the plug on it. Of course, I also have issues with the DVR. I do hope that this will solve the problem with the STB. I've got Cat6 to the DVR, I just need to figure out how to get it to the STB. The Cisco STB is terribly unreliable - have to constantly reboot it (sometimes the FF issue above can't be resolved until it's rebooted for instance). For instance, fast-forwarding a show on the Cisco STB is very rarely a good experience - it'll jump ahead of where you stop or it will freeze when trying to start FF. I do suspect that part of the issue is MoCA. Not sure what/were the issue is (hardware, software, both) but since switching to TW in our new house I'm really missing the DirecTV days (hard to believe since I wasn't fond of their DVR after switching from TiVo). I think Time Warner's DVRs (Arris), the remote STB (Cisco), and the communication between the two suck. Anyone have direct comparison experience with TW's STBs vs TiVo? How about TiVo on MoCA?
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