One of the reasons people are in love with cable and satellite TV is the DVR units provided by these companies. No longer do you have to sit through commercials and content that you aren’t interested in watching. Simply record your favorite shows, then watch them at your convenience without the commercial. If you are in an area served by Charter cable, then this brief Charter DVR review will get you up to speed on what you can expect to find with their digital video recorder.
With your Charter digital recorder, you will be granted full control over your television. View habits quickly change once you get a DVR, as you will be freed up from a specific schedule. You will no longer have to plan you life around certain programs, instead you can simply record a show or series though the Charter DVR, then sit down and watch it at your convenience.
Current Charter DVRs being given to customers are the Motorola 6416/3416 and have a 160GB capacity. These will save up to 100 hours of SD content, which falls quite a bit below the Dish Network DVR which offers up to 200 hours of SD recording. The Charter DVR HD capacity is 21 hours of recording. As long as you aren’t needing to save a lot of content Charter should do the trick for you, but if not you may want to take a harder look at the satellite TV alternative.
If you are doing some shopping and are interested in the Charter DVR price, here is what you can expect to pay. For 2010, the current Charter price for digital video recorder service is $15 a month. This fee is for each room in the house where you want a Charter digital recorder. If you want two or more rooms hooked to DVR service, then an alternative to consider is the Dish Network DVR, as some of their units are designed to work in multiple rooms. Also, if you live in an area where AT&T U-verse or Verizon Fios TV is being deployed, both telco TV providers have introduced multi room DVR units that can feed three or four TV sets in your home.
Charter DVR boxes are dual tuner devices. That means they have the capability of recording two shows at one time. You can also watch one show while recording another with these Charter boxes. The DVR is fully controlled by the same remote control that you use for your digital cable, and you can quickly and easily navigate through on screen menus to decide exactly what you want to record or delete. Overall, the Charter DVR will certainly save you plenty of time, but they are a bit more expensive when looking at the monthly fees charged by satellite TV providers like DIRECTV.
