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  1. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    It's been a couple of years since I've been in the position of having a deactivated receiver, so maybe things have changed. I didn't have any trouble watching my accumulated recordings, except that I had to keep cancelling some pop-ups that were telling me something or other about activation. It...
  2. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Yes, I'm already weeding out dead shows. That doesn't really change the situation much.
  3. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I guess you guys talking about deleting old series are still watching TV from the 90s or something. Uh, I mean, I guess you have different viewing habits than I do. :-) When I was a kid, watching TV on the Philco in the electronics store window, all of the new shows started and ended their...
  4. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Still bugs the heck out of me on my HR20. We are constantly up against that limit.
  5. DIRECTV Programming
    It's worse than that now. 9-5 no longer exists, period, and recently D* removed 9-1 from their idea of local channels for the Seattle area. Grr.
  6. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I'd like to be able to cut a recording into two pieces as a simple way of doing edits. Perhaps a simple way to do this would be to have a UI for splitting at a bookmark. Once cut, they would look and act like two separate recordings. They could be independently kept or deleted, played back...
  7. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    In my house, we record a LOT of stuff that we never watch (or sometimes watch just the beginning and then toss it out). Due to the SL limit, my kids are mainly stuck on the TiVo with their season passes, but my wife and I definitely have almost completely different lists of "just in case"...
  8. DIRECTV Programming
    I've had assorted problems with them for a couple of months. Like you, I am not having problems with other local HD channels. My OTA reception of Q13 is pretty good, but I switched over to the D* feed when mpeg4 settled down. Since the problems are so intermittent (and because I'm always...
  9. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Hey, maybe if you'd bother to check your B-band converters, you'd get your higher SL limit. I mean, come on, work with us here!
  10. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Heh, couldn't agree more. That's why I have given up on SL completely. Now I just remember when things are going to be on, show up at my TV, and hit record. Once I get used to this new system (which, through weakness, I still find inconvenient in the middle of the night or when I'm supposed...
  11. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    That would be great. I'll keep an eye out for it next time there is a -100 CE. Thanks for the info.
  12. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I think you have misunderstood. I understand completely about not starting/ending recordings at expected times. The problem I'm talking about is that the actual physical recording on disk starts at, say, 11:00:03. When I select it to play for the first time, it starts at position 11:00:27 or...
  13. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    ((HR20-100)) I see this all the time with recorded shows: When I select them from the list to play them, they start 20-30 seconds into the recording. I don't mean that they started recording late (though I get that irritating problem, too). I mean they start playing back 20-30 seconds into...
  14. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Please clarify. Are you applying for a job with the D* marketing team or the D* development team?
  15. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I was watching this show about the household of the future. The master computer for your house learns your habits and automatically selects for you shows it knows you'll watch and ignores the shows you won't like. What you are talking about is clearly the next step ... if the computer doesn't...
  16. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I don't think I have anything new reasoning to add except that I too think this is very important (and ridiculous), so instead I offer only additional emotional reinforcement. :) I left my TiVo in operation with a secondary D* subscription thinking it would only be for a month or so while my...
  17. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Yeah, I understood all that. (I got one as a replacement for an ancient receiver a few years ago.) Still, it's a mistake for a DVR. A simple physical rearrangement with all the same buttons would be an easy improvement. I'm not complaining, but I ... oh, I guess I am complaining :)
  18. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    What matters more to me is the, uh, inconvenient physical layout of this remote. It's sort of OK for standard DirecTV kinds of things, but it's completely messed up for DVR functions. By far, the things you are going to do most with a DVR are the changing the volume and fiddling with the...
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