DVR Chatter

Which model and series do you have?  The disks run constantly in normal use, and some have fans (although neither of those in mine is loud enough to hear from any reasonable distance).

Here's a good reference for the DVRs:  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_use_a_Motorola_DVR

I remember when I got my first TiVo I sat there thinking, "What have I done? How am I going to live with all this noise." Fast forward 6 years...two TiVos and two Motorola DVRs later...and I never even her the noise generated by my QIP-6416 and Series3 TiVo.

When it's new, it takes some getting used to. You won't hear it in a week. Turn the TV up in the meantime.

Frank wrote:

shj wrote:

If your DVR is making enough noise to be annoying, you should ask Comcast to replace it.

Don't they charge for that visit now?

I haven't seen the new list of charges, but I suppose you can always just carry it in and ask for another one.  I did that just to trade a 3412 for a 3416 (admittedly a better reason than noise -- which may or may not be less with the next one you get of the same model).

You are charged for service calls ONLY if YOU are the cause for the service call (ie. installing your own splitters, lines, etc that cause a malfunction). Some of that "do it yourselfing" that causes chargeable service calls can be voided with that Service Protection Plan mentioned in another thread.