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  1. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I have similar issues with my less than 6 month old HR24/500. Audio drops and/or locked pic that can be watched if I just back up 10 sec and try again to play through it. Very annoying and neither of the old HR20's have this issue on my system. The HR24 is connected via HDMI and the Dolby...
  2. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Got it in the Madison, WI market this morning, on both the HR 24 and the HR20's. I thought we weren't supposed to get it until the 18th but maybe they just lumped us in with Chicago getting it. Didn't have much time to play with it before work, seems a bit faster on the scrolling in the...
  3. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Thanks for the tip on the FAP not working well with the HR24. When I hooked it up to the other HR20 in the BR is spun right up just fine.
  4. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I have a another FAP hooked to an HR20 in the basement that I ripped the drive out of after it kept locking up and used the antec mx-1 and it has been working fine for the last year or two since I did it. Rip out was the right term, that drive did not come out easy from FAP enclosure. I...
  5. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Related to the previous two posts: I just had whole home DVR installed and one of my old HR20's wouldn't work so the install tech gave me a new HR24 to replace it. I had a 1TB FAP hooked up to the HR20, I understand I lose the ability to access the recordings on the FAP with the new DVR but I...
  6. DIRECTV Programming
    Just my two cents but a lot of the peer reviewed no TV stuff referred to regular TV which was supposely over stimulating the very young babie's brain. It might seem like slow and boring but when you have never seen much of anything in the world cartoons and flashing lights or even Barney may be...
  7. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I've noticed a lot of the channels have no guide data available. I first noticed it on just a few channels on Tuesday (07/20) night and then last night Wed. (07/21) there were even more channels with no guide data. Most were in the 230 to 271 area as the Lifetimes, Style, History...
  8. DIRECTV General Discussion
    The descriptions and talking points are pretty funny stuff. I know a few fo the shows they bring up the very worst one time instance of something and make it seem as if it is a regular occurance. Some of the shows that I knew would get lots of warnings were pretty funny, Tosh.O basically lists...
  9. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I had the exact same thing happen to one of my HD DVR's on Wednesday. Got a searching for signal error on tuner 1 but only on certain channels, others came in fine. A look at the signal strength meter showed 95% for tuner 2, 0% for tuner 1, even when receiving a picture on tuner 1. I also...
  10. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I saw a number of complaints on another board that Charter locked up in some places in the Madison area so cable didn't work real well during the storm either. My boss said she typically loses her Charter during heavy rain but a number of people reported the screen just freezing when they tried...
  11. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Got up the this morning and noticed all three HD DVR's were locked up, rebooted all three, nothing worked yet. Tried the 4th DVR, a SD version in the work out room, and it fired right up so I knew my dish wasn't having problems due to the overnight storm. Reached around back and unplugged the...
  12. DIRECTV Programming
    The other question is just because a HD channel is available should anyone care if it is available. Seriously, how many channels actually have enough viewership to matter in the grand scheme of limited sat room. You know if there had been a SoapNet HD channel carried somewhere there would be a...
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I would like to 2nd, 3rd, and 4th the slowness of both DirecTv and Verizon's websites. I have used my iPod Touch to acces the DirecTV app and it is often still just as slow or timing out. It isn't just my home connection, it is the same on my office connection, or even when I tried to...
  14. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Finally getting around to posting and sure enough, success was achieved on the using the Antec MX-1 and plopping my drive in from the 750GB FAP. All the recordings were there and so far everything has been playable. I am still not too sure how long the drive will last, it seems to respond...
  15. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Only received one minor cut during the dismantiling phase, jabbed the screwdriver or cut my thumb on the plastic trying to get the two halves apart. Another thread mentioned that once you get all the base screws out to wedge a thin flat head in the middle one of the three slits/holes on...
  16. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    My 750GB FAP just failed. It is just over 2.5 years old and I noticed it has been pixelating, droping audio, very slow at times so I was mentally noting it would die soon. It had been running at about 35% to 40% remaining disk space and I was trying watch any shows that I was behind on and...
  17. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    voted delete after specificed period of time. It really doesn't take more than a couple seconds to delete them so I really don't care, you don't have to read each one on each receiver before deleting it. Pretty minor issue for me.
  18. DIRECTV Programming
    Probably people like me that just don't care about any of the proposed new channels. I don't watch WGN, Travel, ESPNU, E, MSNBC so I really don't care that they aren't in HD. When they do become HD I am still not going to care. I don't think I have watched ESPNU since they moved to the...
  19. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Voted happy, don't care about the freebies. I get all the channels in HD I care about, I like the DVR over the old Tivos, and I haven't had any issues with customer service/installs, etc. I don't really interact with those areas much but when I have things have gone relatively smoothly. I...
  20. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Yeah, Hasan, I think you hit my point in an even more concise way. Even 125 vs. 195 is still nitpicking to me because those 70 channels aren't really anything I miss and Dish probably only has somewhere in the 125 area as well if the same criteria are used because there just aren't 200 unique...
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