Philips WVH111 AOLTV Internet Television Set-Top Box
Creep Crawl & Stall!
This product is great for anyone who drove a Model T!  I can only image what it was like to have to crank up the car while standing in mud and rain, then have to run and get in before it stopped.  Better yet have to throw your foot out onto the ground to brake the engine.<br />1.  Because this product is marketed by Aol you are totally limited to Aol as a service provider which is a nighmare in and of itself.<br />2.  It takes forever to logon.  By the time you do your fun justs begins.  <BR>     a)  Several websites are totally inaccessIble.  You are given a message of \\"page too large to load.\\"  Now it happens with most government oriented websites, city, county, state, federal.  It has also happens on other websites, shopping sites, etc., hardwood floors, kitchen fixtures, etc.     <BR>    b)  It has extremely limited software, many of the sites require Adobe Acrobat and other popular software, well tough, go tell  somebody who cares.<br />3)  Sending E-Mail , well keep it short and simple stupid.<BR>     a)  If you stay on the e-mail page one minute too long, it disconnects/line drop., and you lose all of your typed text and you also have to log back on again and start your e-mail all over.<BR>     b) If you type too long an e-mail it locks you out (limited, very limited capacity), when you go back and try to shorten it, surprise it disconnects you and system shuts down again!<br />4)   At night, when I suppose they do their batch processing/computer maintenance, from about 1:00-6:00 a.m., (by the way the best time to acess dial up internet access) it starts singing rickety, tick tick tick buzz and grind.  Now all of this is fine except when you are USING IT AND ONCE AGAIN YOU ARE DISCONNECTED!  THEN REPEAT THE CREEP CRAWL AND THEN STALL LOG ON PROCESS.<BR>If you are talking on the telephone and the box starts singing it interferes with your conversation, it sounds like someone in your house picked up the extension phone, or that your telepone is being tapped. The other person's voice fades out.<br />Once , while online, i, was disconnected 5 TIMES in 45 minutes!  This is a regular occurence with this not ready for the Jetsons, Computer Age, HIGH TECHNOLOGICALLY ENGINEERED ADVANCEMENT, TAKE ONE STEP FOR MANKIND ALAN DEVICE!<br />5) You cannot in spite what it says receive photos from 1 hour photo lab or anywhere else,  nor many of the so called \\"features.\\"<br />In my opinion, this thing is fine for someone who has nothing but time to spend i.e., prison inmates, people on hiatus on a mental ward, anyone else should be well paid for using this device, since it is a great experiment for mankind in the area of human patience and the science of wasted time.<br />Oh, by the way when my credit card was charged for the first month's service, Aol,  treated me to not one but two, internet services one for [price] the second \\"premium service,\\" for only [price]!  I didn't even have to ask for the premium service, they didn't even tell me how to use it or what it is for,  they have really taken care of me.  Lucky me...<br />I purchased this FIAT (go fix it again Tony) 3 months ago, and it will have the same fate as a FIAT!  <br />Creep, Crawl & Stall ___ .... __ ... _ .