Comments on: (New) HD TiVo Coming to DirecTV!

By: colleen spilsbury

colleen spilsbury — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:39:12 +0000

The wait is killing me. Keep hearing rumblings then getting my hopes up just to have them crushed. In dvr hell. As homer would say “they get you addicted then jack up the price”. Only theres no option for a jacked up price. Which I would gladly pay to get out of Dish network HELL! Somebody please give me some good news to look forward to this year!

By: john

john — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:58:03 +0000

DTVs HD DVRs SUCK!!!! most are re-builds that are slow and lock up all the time!!!! I hate, hate, hate them!!!!… can can’t wait until I can go back to using TiVo.

By: MIke

MIke — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:10:43 +0000

OK now I am confused –

Can some one confirm or deny the hardware that wll be used is not going to be TiVo but the Direct TV DVR hardware they are currently offering?

I am only hoping that they will use all the functions of the TiVO stand alone units and not just a few selections.

As a Direct TV customer scince October of 1994 I have spent much $$$ Direct TV recivers and on TiVo Units, Starting with the first standalone TiVo uints which I hooked to the old RCA Direct TV recivers ( that TiVo still works today !) and when the DVR TIVOs came out I bought 3 SD units then 2 HD Units. Currently we have 4 Tivo DVRS running with 1 Direct TV DVR and 1 Basic Reciver in our household. Ok- a little over board but if the file sharing was available on the Direct TV TiVos we would be in TiVO heaven !!

Renently I was hood winked by Direct TV —
When I lost one tuner in the oldest SD unit Direct TV sent me what they said would function like a TiVO but as it turns out is a slow responding “dumbed down” imitation without the dual channel buffers.
while it can do some neat things — My hope would be they do not just add the dual channel buffer to the current units.

I have held out and held my breath waiting for the MPEG 2 transmissions to stop — at which time I was contemplating switching to Atlanitc Broadband and getting new HD stand alone Tivos. Well now I might just deal with the wait and hope to see a great TiVo – Direct TV DVR come out. Maybe it will be released before they kill the Mempeg 2 transmissions.

An even better thought how can I get on the new Units BETA TEST list ???

By: Brandi

Brandi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:54:42 +0000

Finally!!! we had a tivo w/dtv and loved it! after 4 years the box finally broke and we couldn’t get a tivo again. we got dtv’s dvr and it is awful!!!! the worst electronic i have ever had! it misses our recordings, won’t rewind or fastforward! can’t wait to have my tivo back!

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:08:00 +0000

James, the press release said the second half of next year. Given TiVo’s missed targets with Cox and Comcast, who really knows…

By: James

James — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:51:43 +0000

Dave, you said “DirecTV and TiVo plan to offer TiVo service to DirecTV customers sometime late next year.”
So, just for us over-excited hard-of-thinking, do you mean this is still about 18 months away?

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:08:09 +0000

Hopefully when you say “like the Comcast Tivo” you mean “sort of like the Comcast Tivo”.

The Comcast Tivo sucks. It runs under OCAP, and is if anything more problematic than the original software that runs on the Comcast STBs it is deployed on (Mot 8000-somethings).

Presumably a “Software Tivo” in this case would run on the bare DTV hardware, which presumably would be fine.

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:19:16 +0000

Great news! I’ve been holding onto my HR10-250 because I cannot give up the dual live buffers even though it meant losing HD channels (MPEG 4). I was thinking of leaving DTV, but maybe I can wait a year for the new box.