I don't really watch much TV nowadays, but the I programs I do watch would revolve mostly around football or the news. Well that was until my wife started to record American Idol on Astro Max.
Out of all the contestants still left standing, I suppose the three male singers are my favourites. You have the two Davids - Archuleta & Cook as well as Michael Johns who hails from my favourite city, Perth.
The rest are ok in my opinion, just that the three I mentioned seem to have an extra dimension to their weekly performance, are are very consistent week in week out.
Unfortunately, I've ran out of space on my AstroMax, and am forced to delete old episodes of Football Focus because of that. : (
I am also waiting for the warranty to run out as I am anxious to rip the box apart and plonk a megasize HDD to replace the preinstalled 80 GB disk. I'll definitely post the pictures on that.
I have to also say that my experience with the contraption is not to pleasant as I've seen the box freezing up too many a time. The remote also sucks, and there are many instances where hitting a button activates something else. Crap is all I can say. Great idea, crappy execution.
I've read in some forums that the box doesn't store the programs, but only shortcuts to the Astro server. My take is that the programs are in you HD, but you need the SIM card to unlock/decrypt the programs, as I've tried it by using my SIM card in place of my dad's and I could see that the previously recorded programs are all intact.
Would definitely wait for the warranty period to cease for me to find out more..
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