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I recently switched from Cable with Tivo Series 2 DVR's to Dish Network and their 722 DVR. After having used the 722 for 5 months it is clear this box is no where near Tivo.
I have both a TIVO and the VIP722 and the 722 in my opinion blows it away. The picture quality is much better, it has an RF remote, 30 sec skip and ability to watch record 3 shows.
Dish Network does NOT know their own product. In the course of switching to this unit from a Direct Tv/Tivo I had seven people at the company, including three installers, tell me point blank that the unit would not allow pausing live TV on the two tuners and switching between them.
My girlfriend lives in an apartment building and is thus relegated to cable. She has the cable DVR and I can't begin to explain how inferior the cable DVR is to my 722! The hard drive is limited, there is no widescreen EPG, and it is very sluggish to respond to remote control commands.
Can wait to get a new one with more capacity on the HD.
After living with TiVo on DirecTV for 6+ years, we moved to Dish for HD, because the DirecTV DVR gets such terrible reviews. The ViP722 does the job, but it's much harder to use than TiVo.
Dish really did a great job on this one. I had directv before and their recievers are slow responding, small recording times, and picture quality isnt as good as this reciever.
We switched to Dish this month to avoid paying the $279 DirecTV wanted for an HD DVR. We had DirecTV's "Tivo" based receiver and it was far superior.
There is a PIP feature that allows you to view two satellite pictures at the same time in a variety of different formats, including split screen. This DVR replaced a short lived competitor's DVR which replaced a 7 year old TiVo with a large hard drive. So far the ViP722 has the best software package.
Since writing our previous review (under the ViP622), we've had a bit more time. And guess what, we had to have them send a replacement 722 because a minor hardware problem - we started getting a "jumping freeze frame" with normal audio.
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