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  1. Internet Streaming Services
    I have been a Tablo user since the first units shipped last April, and I highly recommend it. There is a guide data subscription (though you have the option of no guide with just manual recordings). The best choice is $150 lifetime, which covers your lifetime, not the device, so you could buy...
  2. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I have had both, and DirecTv's guide is much better than UVerse. Uverse follows the cable method, using low numbered channels for SD and high numbered channels for HD. It is paid to hide all those SD channels, and the few that don't have a HD equivalent just look out of place. DirecTv has SD...
  3. Internet Streaming Services
    The Tablo is a new OTA DVR that does all of this. It's a little box that you connect a hard drive and an antenna, and it connects wired or wirelessly to your home network. You can watch live tv (with pause/rewind/ff) and record/playback shows. It doesn't hook up to a tv directly, but it...
  4. Internet Streaming Services
    I would think that physical media and the supporting staff is still cheaper than the cost for all the streaming rights. So it doesn't surprise me that the price is the same.
  5. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I switched to Uverse before the Genie had come out. The thing I loved the most was being able to perform DVR functions from any TV and watch recorded programs from any TV. The other thing is that it has HUB in HD like every other provider except DirecTv. There is also usually no contract...
  6. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I live in Nashville, and I tried to watch that Big Bang recording last night, and it just gave an error (bad packets or something like that). I had never had that happen before either, and Thursday night had clear weather. Good to know I wasn't the only one.
  7. DIRECTV Programming
    I missed the announcement in late February, but I think this is good news for Braves fans. In the past few seasons, about 45 games were broadcast by PeachTree TV, which DirecTv did provide for those in the Braves viewing area but lived outside of Atlanta (like Nashville). Now all the games...
  8. DIRECTV General Discussion
    That's what's so confusing. As shown above, TN residents already get taxed on satellite service. I did email the group responsible for the tax emails, and hopefully I will get a response. I just don't the like idea of spamming legislators with emails against something that doesn't even exist.
  9. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I am a TN resident, and I received an email yesterday from DirecTv, telling me to write my legislators to stop a new TV tax. But when I look up the bill on the TN government site, this is all it says (see below). DirecTv appears to have spooked by a shadow of something, because this is...
  10. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I use the 30 sec slip on my Genie, but I use FF on my H24s. The 30 sec button is way to slow to react on those. In response to the above post, it's multiple choice. You can select as many as you want.
  11. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Back when I had DirecTv the first time, I missed out on whole home DVR service by about 3 months. While it was free for new customers, it cost $200 for existing customers to get it installed. So I just waited till my contract was up. I switched to U-Verse for 6 months (promotional...
  12. DIRECTV Connected Home
    I have 18Mbps speed with U-Verse, and I have no problems either with WHDVR. All my receivers talk fine to each other, and VOD works at a reasonable speed. I don't do VOD very much because Netflix and Amazon Prime instantly stream to my TV, while I have to wait for VOD to finish.
  13. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I left DirecTv last year, had UVerse for six months, and then I went back to DirecTv. While I wasn't a new customer, I got all the same deals as a new customer ($99 HMC DVR, all other equipment free, free HD, free install of Whole-home service, 1 year discount on service, 3 months...
  14. DIRECTV Programming
    My wife is a Vandy grad, but I have just been a fan for most of my life. :) I just noticed the change to HD today on channel 30. I love it for SEC sports and Jeopardy. Now I don't need an antenna anymore.
  15. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I am like most of you. I lose it in heavy rain for 5 to 20 minutes. It happens only a few times a year, and during that time I just switch to my antenna and watch local channels (or use the DVR). I had it happen with Dish as well. It's just physics. ;)
  16. DIRECTV General Discussion
    The question I am curious about is how has this affected signing up new customers to DirecTv? I would think most of us current customers can live without these channels for a while, but I would be surprised if many people are signing up since this happened.
  17. DIRECTV General Discussion
    I want to put in my 2 cents to support Cartoon Network. For those that like SpongeBob, try Adventure Time or Regular Show. MAD and Amazing World of Gumball are also really cool and funny. Cartoon Network is relevant again for kids (and adults) TV, and my kids and I watch it a lot more...
  18. DIRECTV General Discussion
    Probably because they make more a lot more money having all the different cable/satellite providers pay for them. If it was available online, even for a price, they won't get nearly the same amount of money. That is one of Dish's complaints about AMC. If fans of AMC shows can watch the...
  19. DIRECTV General Discussion
    The Republican and Democrat national conventions are Aug 27-30 and the week of September 3 respectively. Those are huge for the Daily Show. But those are still about 6 weeks away. The summer just isn't a time for new shows. The only real weakness I see for DirecTv is getting new subscribers...
  20. DIRECTV Connected Home
    The only on demand channel I really use is Anime Network. Most of the time, it records the whole show fine, but sometimes there are noticeable gaps when playing a show. On the screen, it will pause for a few seconds and then skip ahead to a completely new scene. This will happen multiple...
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