Motorola’s serious looking DVR rolling out to Comcast

Speaking as someone that has Comcast in their area, I have to say that it is about time they get DVRs into our homes! In my area, this is one of the biggest reasons that DirectTv is so popular.

Now, I wonder if Comcast will be able to rectify this with the release of Motorola’s dual tuner, HDTV 6412 DVR. It will not con me into ditching my Satellite TV, but it would make me quit bad mouthing Comcast.

I’ve been reading reviews and reports of Motorola’s dual tuner, HDTV 6412 DVR, and word on the street is that it’s finally reaching a lot of major Comcast markets. While almost all reviews of cable company DVRs have been mostly poor, due to bad software, bad hardware, or an overall low quality experience, this one looks like a serious TiVo fighter, since it packs a lot of features you just can’t get in a TiVo.

Dual tuners for cable - DirecTV users with TiVo know the joy of this. Basically season pass conflicts are rare once you’ve got two tuners going at once, plus you can watch other live programs while things tape, which comes in handy.

Records HDTV - only 15 hours of HD content max, but there are only about ten channels on Comcast systems so it’s probably not too much of a problem.

60 hours of regular TV recording - pretty good number, probably using a 80 to 120 Gb drive to fit that much standard TV and HDTV.

HD VOD - video on demand movies, in full glorious resolution (though you can’t record them). I’m not the biggest fan of VOD, but it’s certainly a cool feature when you can get a pay per view movie right now instead of having to wait for TiVo to grab it later tonight to watch tomorrow, which is how I use DirecTV’s PPV.