Your tv receiving HD/Digital channels depends on whether or not it came with a built in digital HD tuner.
From what I've read here it's hard or even impossible to choose an HR20 or HR21 from Directv. They just send what they have on hand.
It would be nice if the gui was native HD. They could fit so much more stuff on it that way and it would still look nice.
I'm sure someone, somewhere is working on it right now.
The TiVo interface is awful in my opinion and I could never live with it. I like having control over my home theater and the HR20 has the options that let me do that. The DirecTiVos never have.
Using a TiVo is like having someone hold your hand when you cross the street.
On the DirecTV locals. I don't have an antenna for OTA channels. I'm for sure it's my local affiliate though because it only does it when my NBC affiliate shows their logo after commercials. Sometimes it happens in the middle of shows like Heroes when they have extended periods without commercials.
I've noticed that sometimes my local channel providers switch from 1080i down to 480p when they put their logo on the screen for station identification. It could be that causing it.
Does it happen on the national channels too?
It seems to me that the problem isn't with D10, but with some people's setups. Since I get the slide on 498 with my HR20-700 and I know people with HR20-100's who get it, that is the only logical explanation.
Thanks for your help everybody.
I finally got through to DirecTV support after trying off an on today. The CSR said they would charge me $70 for the installation and the fact that they didn't sell me the receiver would be fine.
What I was mostly worried about was all of the hardware they'd...
Hi everyone,
Yesterday I talked my grandma into upgrading to an HR20 so she could get the new channels.
She has a DirecTV brand TiVo in her living room and a Phillips DirecTV TiVo in her bedroom. We're having the installer move to receiver from her living room to her bedroom and since she owns...
I don't think they've pushed any new showcases out to HR20's since they enabled them.
A few people received them with a CE build prior to the national release though.
I haven't missed a recording in months. My grandma misses them all the time with her HR10 though. Go figure.
This myth about the HR20 missing more recordings than the Tivo units doesn't hold water.