Comcast’s new HD-DVR

Just before the holidays, Matt Haughey had some first impressions of Motorola’s serious looking DVR, which is now rolling out to Comcast users. In a fresh post today, he has designer James Duncan Davidson’s first impressions of the unit and links to a screenshot of the unit in action.

Only 15 hours of HD recording? Only 60 hours total? That would be a deal-breaker for me, even if the interface looks way better than the horrible Scientific Atlanta software.

I’ve ordered a Fusion HDTV card for the Media Center PC and will be experimenting with over-the-air HDTV. (They say it supports MCE 2005.) If it works, the Cox/SA box is going back…