Tag : 2000 digital, video recorder, sony svr

Company : Sony List Price : $499.99 Amazon Price : Used Price : Average customer review :

Features

• Play, pause, fast-forward, or rewind “live” television broadcasts as you’re watching them
• 30 hours’ recording time; uses the TiVo hard-disk recorder platform
• Designed to work with standard-definition terrestrial broadcasts as well as with digital satellite systems and cable programming services
• TiVo service offers: recommendations for shows that match your interests, exclusive editorial programming that includes
• Monthly subscription to the TiVo service is available for $12.95; a lifetime subscription to the TiVo service (without monthly fees) can be purchased with a single payment of $299 [contact TiVo at (877) 367-8486 for more information]

Product Description

Imagine coming home from work and turning on your television. Instead of surfing through all those channels, looking in vain for something you might like, imagine accessing a menu of your favorite TV shows already recorded for your convenience! That’s the magic of the Sony SVR-2000 Digital Network Recorder with TiVo Service. It’s the foolproof way to manage and enjoy the hundreds of channels in today’s TV landscape. Now you can enjoy the very best that television has to offer, every single time you turn it on!The Sony SVR-2000 digitally records up to 30 hours of programming without videotape. By employing hard disk technology, the new network recorder enables consumers to play, pause, fast-forward or rewind “live” television broadcasts as they are being watched. It is designed to work with standard definition terrestrial broadcasts, as well as digital satellite systems and cable programming services.

Customer reviews

Perfect TiVo
No problems — ever. Easy to use and easy to upgrade and/or add larger hard drives.
I liked it so much I just bought another…the SVR-3000.
Hopefully, Sony will continue to make DVRs with the latest technology.

Tivo rocks, Sony is the worst company in the world!!
Do not buy a Sony DVR!!! I’ve been on the phone for hours with 4 operators in India who have no idea what a DVR is. Yet, they work for Sony as technicians who are supposed to fix your DVR?!. Call a number, (nice) Indian operator who has no idea what you are talking about tries to help. She has no clue, so she gives you a new tele number to call. Next tech is just as clueless. I now go to buy ReplayTV because my friend loves his.

It will change your life or at least your tv viewing!
Tivo is one of the best products I have ever purchased. It’s not only a great product but a life changing one. Before you think this is all hype, let me explain. By using a “season pass”, you can record all episodes of your favorite shows automatically. So instead of recording shows each time, it does it for you. The result is that you have all your shows just waiting for you to watch when you come home. You get to spend more time watching what you like and there’s no anxiety over missing a show. Because it records on a hard disk, there are no tapes to purchase or replace. I got purchased one without really understanding the benefits. Both my wife and I were blown away by this product. Once you get one, you’ll never ever understand how you got by without it.

Avoid the Sony SVR-2000!
First let me say, the TiVo service is great! Best thing since color TV.
The Sony SVR-2000 is a piece of junk, and I’m not alone in that opinion. My SVR-2000 died after about 9 months - it would hang up then refuse to reboot. I called Sony tech support and (after waiting for hours on hold) they had me (repeatedly) cycle the power and reset the system, which did not help. Duh! They finally told me to send it back to Sony for repairs. It was still under warranty, but Sony charged me $92 for labor and shipping! When I got it back I discovered that Sony had replaced the hard drive and the motherboard. Mind you, the SVR-2000 only contains three components: the hard drive, the motherboard and the power supply. Sony did refund my $92 service charge, which seemed nice at the time. The warranty expired a month after Sony sent it back. Three months after they sent it back, it died again. I am NOT paying Sony to fix what is obviously a defective product. My SVR-2000 is now sitting in my office gathering dust. I paid for the lifetime TiVo subscription, so now I’m out around $400. I will never buy another Sony product!
I’ve read a lot of other reviews of the SVR-2000 (on other web sites) and a lot of them tell exactly the same story.

Comments on previous review
I’ve owned one of the Sony Tivo’s for about two years and I love it. I was reading the reviews here and had to comment on one that said the remote was horrible and that Tivo was useless unless you could record one channel and watch another at the same time.

First, the remote is the best remote I have ever used. The Sony Tivo remote has garnered almost universal praise from reviewers and I agree. It nestles in the palm so that your thumb falls right on top of the most frequent controls. Clearly the person who wrote that review doesn’t like it, but that is not the experience of 99% of the people who have one.

Secondly, I disagree strongly that the single tuner Tivo is usless because you can’t record one channel and record another at the same time. I used mine that way for more than a year and it was still the best single piece of TV-watching technology I ever purchased. After I finally got a $5 signal splitter I now can record and watch at the same time it is a bit nicer. However, calling Tivo useless without this ability is absurd.

I can’t comment on Sony service for Tivo’s because I have never had a single problem with mine.

I plan on always having a Tivo and can’t wait for the HDTV version due out later this year (2003). The inability to display or record HDTV is a big drawback with this unit.