Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
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Fun with Electronics…
Posted by Thomas on 21 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Electronics
So this entry will be a few things about some electronics. Yeah. Exciting, eh?
First. Our newest Tivo.
We bougt a Humax DVD-Burner TiVo in November. Best thing since sliced bread. You could view web stuff over it, stream music and pictures to it, and of course, watch a butt-load of TV on it. And if you wanted to keep a show, you could burn it to the built in DVD burner.
Sounds good, eh?
Well, there were problems. Once TiVo came out with a software upgrade, our remote decided to go haywire. As in it would take either frantically pressing on the buttons to get it to register, or it would decide you hit the button four times when you only hit it once. Really frustrating.
And we weren’t the only people reporting the problem. Humax’s repsponse? Give people another unit. The problem is: it would sometimes take 3-4 or even 5-6 replacements until you found one that didn’t have the same problem.
When I called to see about a replacement, I was told they’re working on a software update to fix the problem, and to be patient.
That was over a month ago.
That’s why I’m also glad that we bought it from Costco. Which, in case you didn’t know, you can take anything back at any time . So I think we’re taking it back.
Shame on you, Humax. Really disappointing.
While the whole time, our 6 year old original TiVo is working just fine. Nice.
The other thing? Well, I’ve been really sick of bad cell-phone coverage here at the house.
In case you didn’t know, we live in the “right-now-boonies, but keeps growing really fast” Queen Creek. Sprint and most of the other cell phone companies don’t have the greatest service out here. And when you work from home, and mostly try and use your cell phone, it’s a really bummer.
I order a cell-phone repeater. It basically mounts in your attic or outside, then ‘repeats’ the cell phone signal in the house. They say they’re the best thing since sliced bread.
Will soon see. I’ll try and post pictures of the installation and a review, if it actually works as advertised.
Peace out.