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  1. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    LiQiCE- Thanks for discovering the source of those absurd lock-ups and slow-downs. With the deletion of autorecords of the format: ie AALL ANGELS LIVE EVENTS CCHAN 692 both receivers have returned to their former unsatisfactory but at least useable condition. Seven years into development and...
  2. TV Show Talk
    The ending of season 1 bothered me far less than the horrible, nonsensical writing. The first couple of episodes were excellent and I stuck with it in hopes that it would get better. Mistake. I won't be back for this season and it looks like I'm not alone. The first episode of season 2 got a...
  3. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    They lack the skill. That was obvious to me years ago. Even 6 year old tech like the HR-20 is still remarkably fast. It is easily fast enough to handle all the duties of a HD-DVR (reliable and responsive) if properly designed. Unless you've spent some time writing code for embedded systems it...
  4. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I voted new. I like the new look better than the Smurfy looking old version. Scrolling down in the guide is clearly faster. Everything else is just as comically slow as before. Promise unkept. Pressing Pause only to have a huge idiot bar pop up and block what I am trying to see (often the...
  5. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Nothing will change until they decide to hire people who know what they are doing. Faster hardware will help a little, but not enough to cover up terribly designed, inefficient code. And it keeps getting worse. There is nothing wrong with the hardware in the HR series. Competitors with similar...
  6. TV Show Talk
    Game of Thrones has officially been renewed for a second season. This is a great show. I hope it catches on enough so we at least get season 3 (best book of the series thus far).
  7. TV Show Talk
    Amazingly great. I am so happy they didn't screw this up.
  8. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    LOL@ the PIC16F87 in there. Wonder what they used that for.
  9. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    SW500 will make your C129 electrolytic capacitor explode. Oh wait, maybe that happens on its own.
  10. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Or press the blue button twice (my preferred method because I don't want to take the chance of the exit kicking me out to LIVE). You've got to love a design that pops up a massive, unrequested bar (which is almost half advertisement for a service I already pay for) that tells me little...
  11. DIRECTV General Discussion
    20,000 watts. For comparison, The first 3 directv sats were 4300 watts. The first comsat capable of transmitting TV signals (Telstar 1- not geostationary) was 14 watts.
  12. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Is Frame-Reverse still utterly broken? When you press Pause-Rewind it should jump back one single frame. Instead it jumps forward many frames. Totally unusable. I had hoped that this was specific to the BCM hardware (large doubt, as an EE it's almost never the hardware) because it is hard to...
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Yes. HR22 rebooted about 25 minutes ago. Fortunately nothing was recording. Strike 4.
  14. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    One of the other benefits of ditching this horrible press-and-hold is that it will probably eliminate the "jump to the end" or "jump to the beginning" bugs when pressing skip or jump back. Any design which tries to force a busy cpu which has many concurrent duties into trying to time a rf or ir...
  15. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    The hardware is fine and is extremely fast as compared to past generations of hardware. I've worked for both sides (hardware asic design/ firmware). Put a faster BCM cpu in these and they might get a little faster but a weak programmer will just find ways to waste more clock cycles. The HR2X...
  16. DIRECTV General Discussion
    The Directv HR2X receivers that I own have this really cool feature. Press button..... nothing happens. Press button again.... nothing happens. Press button a third time... wait.... then watch all 3 button presses register (3 flashes). Will the Tivo have this cool feature? I'm not sure I could...
  17. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Channel 13 KCOP in LA is so bad. I don't watch this channel much but now that baseball is back I'm going to be watching it. Constant audio nnnnnnnttttttt sometimes with broken up video. Sounds like the bionic woman about to jump over a fence. Game winning hit in the bottom of the ninth? I...
  18. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Several programs didn't record today, including some NCAA games. Starting at 10 am pacific. In History it says "canceled". A couple programs recorded successfully. Most likely they saw some problems earlier and tried to "fix" it and ended up screwing it up worse. It's a common problem when you...
  19. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    To Do List is empty. Nothing recorded today. The Laker game in History says "Partial" but nothing was recorded. Very soon I may be "Partial" to DishNetwork. When are they going to fire some of the ITT Tech rejects they have "working" on this and hire some skilled firmware people? Years go by...
  20. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Testing using the HDNET test patterns: MPEG2 Autocorrect timings: Forward 1X: 0 seconds Forward 2X: -11 seconds Forward 3X: -19 seconds Forward 4X: -78 seconds Reverse 1X: 0 seconds Reverse 2X: 0 seconds Reverse 3X: 0 seconds Reverse 4X: 0 seconds MPEG4 Autocorrect timings: Forward 1X: - 1...
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