![]() Cox provides none of this – if you lose the box, you lose everything. I have off-site backup for disaster recovery. I am never without at least two copies of important files. I back my computers up religiously and daily – all of them – with a home server. ![]() Cox provides NO provision for backing them up so that a failure, which is what happened to the box, doesn’t invalidate months of accumulating entertainment. Jason – here’s the rub: there are over 100 episodes of Wheeler Dealers, many episodes of various shows that are one-time appearances, a few movies that haven’t yet been watched, etc. How’d you like to have all your financial data on your PC, but have no way to back it up before tax day? Probably wouldn’t use a PC for that, would you? Probably shouldn’t use a crummy service like Contour with no provision to service you with what you are buying if there’s a technical glitch, either. Copyright? That issue was resolved with acceptable use policy 40 years ago. ![]() Here’s the question: of what use is a box with a terabyte of storage – presumably designed so that you can have a collection of shows that you like to watch – that does not allow you to back them up so that you can watch them. So if you are recording a season’s programs in prep for a binge watch, be advised that there’s no way to be sure they’ll be there when you want them, because the box is erratic, you can’t back them up and restore them to a replacement box, etc. It freezes on playback of recorded programs, misses recordings because the “program was not found in the guide” – not found by whom? I could see it in the guide! But worst of all, they have no provision for backing up recorded programs. Never heard an SSD whine on startup, but this box does. It runs hot, and Cox insists it has (in an old, not current release box) a 1 TB SSD instead of a spinning hard drive. If you are upgrading from non-HD or straight into the back of your TV cable, then it’s definitely worth the upgrade, high quality video, digital 5.1 audio and many more viewing choices. The question is “is it worth upgrading?” and the answer is it depends on what you currently have if you already have HD Television and a DVR then it’s probably not worth upgrading unless you are a prolific recorder of programs in which case the six tuners and 2TB hard disk would be a nice bonus for you. So I suppose it works, but it’s not really used. We know what we want to watch and most of the recommendations are kids programming as the kids use the TV more than the wife and I do. Obviously the biggest marketing point is the personalized recommendations but we really don’t use the service. We also have the Cisco client box in our bedroom which connects to the main box in the living room to set and watch DVR recordings but there seems to be connectivity issues, recorded programs refuse to play on the client box roughly one in every four times, but will play fine if I watch it on the Record 6 DVR box in the living room, there are clear communication issues between the Record 6 DVR and client box. Occasionally I also get a failed recording because it has disappeared from the program guide after the recording was set using the guide. The HD channels output in 1080i video and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio for the most part but we have experienced intermittent video and audio breakup. Watching TV is fine in general, although often channels go “offline” saying there is no TV signal being received. The Cisco/Cox Record 6 DVR is generally good, no problems with setting and watching recordings but the recordings are not high motion encodings in fast moving scenes there is a good amount of pixelation. So Contour itself it’s OK, but has issues with connectivity, the iPad app is a good idea but we have lots of connectivity issues and also doesn’t allow for watching programs you have recorded on the DVR on the iPad plus it’s only available on your own home network so don’t get any ideas of taking television with you when you go on vacation or business trips, which is a big negative for me. We have started recording the shows we like on the DVR until we have watched the previous episodes on Hulu after the 30 day delay period then in all likelihood we will cancel Hulu completely as we wont need it because we have the DVR, Hulu is useless to us as Cox is not a Hulu partner at this time. ♦ Category: Entertainment, Reviews, Technology ♦ 49 ResponsesĪbout three weeks ago we decided to get cable again after a 2 ½ year break because Hulu owned by NBC Universal, Disney/ABC and Fox started delaying shows by 30 days after broadcast unless you subscribe to a participating satellite/cable provider Cox is not one of the participating providers at time of writing. Writen by Jason Lewis on Dec, 2 2013, 00:17
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