wprager
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The Silfer Server wrote: wprager wrote:My parents (Videotron) can rent a 500 GB PVR for $5.99/month. A regular HD box is $2.99/month.
Rogers charges $24.95/month for a 160 GB PVR; $12.95/month for a regular HD box.
Hardware is the biggest rip off. One is much better off purchasing it. I looked the other day, and found TigerDirect.ca sells the boxes for $50 less than Rogers does. You can also get the 320GB HD PVR for $499. Although if you really want more space, there are external harddrives made for PVRs, which are pretty reasonable in price.
You've got to be careful where you buy stuff. You can't have just any old PVR running on the Rogers network. I don't think I've ever seen a 320 GB model so perhaps it's for a different provider.
The problem with buying is you become sort of tied to a specific provider. And if they were $6/month you'd be a fool *not* to buy. That's about a half of the depreciation costs *and* you get it serviced/replaced for free whenever you need it. $24.95 is a different story, of course.
External drives -- even ones branded and sold by Rogers -- have had tons of issues since the recent firmware upgrade. Best thing is to upgrade the internal drive -- replace the 160 GB with a 1 TB drive, FTW!
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