Pioneer DVR-533H-S Slim Design DVD Recorder with 80 GB Hard Disk Drive
TV-Guide hell
I'm not sure I would fully have appreciated the negative comments about the tv-guide function before I got the dvr, based on very favorable reviews elsewhere. But after the first night of listening to the endless chirping I deduced that it was downloading or trying to download tv-guide info from the mothership. Sure enough, in tv-guide setup mode it stops chirping. After hours of trying to figure out how to disable the tv-guide, a web search brought me here and confirmed my worst fears. I will have to find a less convenient place for this thing to live if I don't want to hear the chirping 24/7.  2010: Now Comcast has fully crippled its tvguide functions and its timekeeping. Resetting the clock requires going through the entire initial setup - about 10 minutes of aggravation. This thing is now an antiquated pig.