Pioneer DVR-533H-S Slim Design DVD Recorder with 80 GB Hard Disk Drive
There's always hope I guess
I have to agree about the TV guide. That's the weakest point of this machine.  We bought ours last Saturday and it took until Wednesday to get the TV guide working properly.  At first, it was finding 2 other guide services that weren't even related to our system.  I did recognize the name on one which was actually from another cable system close by.  After a complete reset and starting over and about 24 hours, it found ONLY the proper service. <br /> <br />Then, it took like 2 days or more to populate the guide. <br /> <br />The BIGEST downfall of this guide, is that all the channels where not in their right places.  One would think that if the right service has been selected, then the channel lineup should be the same, let's say, as on our Digital Cable Box (DCB). <br /> <br />So, it took me around 2.5 hours to reassign the channels!!! <br />A good hour of that was messing around trying to make the channels stick.  When I'd move one channel, it would affect the positions of all the rest. <br /> <br />I finally figured out that instead of starting with the highest channels, to start with the lowest.  I filled in position 1 with a non working channel so that this placeholder wouldn't get changed and change the whole new lineup.  This finally worked. <br /> <br />As has been reported, I too am seeing some of the same things.  Like starting last night, for the first time, I also saw this \\"WAIT\\" on the DVR when powering up. At one point, I couldn't even get it to power on at all, but this corrected itself in a couple of minutes.  Don't like that. <br /> <br />The other thing I don't like about the TV guide is that it doesn't display the channel number along the left side of each netwok.  Sorry, but I've always refered to channels by their numbers, not by their call letters.  Sure, as you scroll up or down, the channel is displayed in the corner, but I'd rather have it display all the time, like on the DCB. <br /> <br />Yes, it is also slow to navigate, but the page advance and day advance really helps a lot. <br /> <br />Overall, if the TV guides doesn't reset itself as others have reported, then I think I'll be very happy with the unit.