Honestly, it's not that bad. Not even close to being as bad as the Multiroom DVRs were when they first came out.
I never turn the VMS off - as I never did with the 7232 DVRs I had - and it's been my experience that that makes a differrence with regards to responsiveness. I'd suggest to anybody suffering from serious lag that you leave the VMS on 24x7. It doesn't make a lick of difference power consumption-wise either. While I agree that they are not as fast as the 7232s (once all the problems were ironed out with those), they are much more responsive than the DirecTV Genie setup I once used and about as responsive as the Tivo Roamio setup I previously used.
joker211 wrote:This is the very reason we decided not to get VMS units. We rather suffer with a 2 turner DVR rather then get a quirky box with missing features. That will cost me another $216 per year. Fios had 3 years delay to get this right. They did not. Shame on them.
I remember getting the Multiroom Dvr when I first got Fios. It was a year new at that time. It was also quirky. Many updates later. It is a non quirky box for the most part. I do not want to be the test subject for VMS.
A good will move would be to leave it the same price as current multiroom dvr and let people work out the kinks.