Craig over at GearBits says that a friend of his just got the Explorer 8000 from Scientific Atlanta, the combination cable tuner/digital video recorder that Time-Warner Cable is offering to its customers in various locales around the country, and that it’s not so hot:
There’s one big difference between the 8000 and your run-of-the-mill TiVo…it appears to suck big time. In the roughly 72 hours he’s had the 8000, it has reset itself on him about half a dozen times, refused to quit recording, recorded the wrong show, and recorded several copies of the same show (even though it was set to ignore repeats). What’s more is that he got no instruction manual or anything when he picked up the 8000. If it were so intuitive that you didn’t need a manual, that would be one thing, but this unit’s interface is far, far from intuitive.
Anyone else tried out the 8000 and had similar problems?
