Having problems with Time-Warner’s DVR

Craig over at GearBits says that a friend of his just make the Explorer 8000 from Scientific Atlanta , the combination cable tuner / digital video registrar that Time - Warner Cable is offering to its customer in various locales around the country , and that it ’s not so red-hot :

There ’s one bad difference between the 8000 and your run - of - the - factory TiVo … it appears to suck grown time . In the close to 72 hours he ’s had the 8000 , it has reset itself on him about half a dozen times , refuse to quit transcription , recorded the incorrect show , and recorded several written matter of the same show ( even though it was set to ignore repetition ) . What ’s more is that he induce no pedagogy manual of arms or anything when he cull up the 8000 . If it were so visceral that you did n’t postulate a manual of arms , that would be one thing , but this unit ’s port is far , far from intuitive .

Anyone else tried out the 8000 and had interchangeable problems ?