I was duped. I totally forgot that a thread that starts with multiple asterisks and uses all capital letters is likely to be someone who has been pushed over the edge in some way, even if done by himself: I refer you to Wesley Mullings's thread from several years ago, which started out "CALLING ALL INSTALLERS" or something like that. He was pushing his own futureproof method of installing cabling, a plan that would never need revising or rewiring. (This was before HDMI....)

I'm finally seeing what's been expressed in the last couple of posts.

I'm sorry you have had such a hard time with those two DVRs, but you do seem to be the only person with such an extreme issue. I'm reminded of the woman who said "You know, I've dated all 2000 guys on this Naval Base, and none of them are right," to which her friend replied, "Well, there's one thing in common here: maybe it's not all 2000 of them."