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  1. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    What does that mean? What is a "fulltime" tuner? And how can one of those "3 full time tuners" be used to record 4 shows at once?
  2. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    What does that mean? Can't any DVR record "anything anytime"? What does that mean? What is a "fulltime" tuner? And how can one of those "3 full time tuners" be used to record 4 shows at once?
  3. DIRECTV Programming
    Better than a idiot like you who can't come up with an actual response to that post. Maybe you're just a shill for Pandora and other crappy third rate low quality entertainment options. Personally I think Pandora sucks, and judging from the report of their financials two days ago (and their...
  4. DIRECTV Programming
    I would hope that they are getting paid to include it on their DVRs. Any other financial arrangement where DIRECTV was paying Pandora would be an an extremely unwise expenditure. Pandora is a service that tries to make money (so far very unsuccessfully) by giving away the ability to access their...
  5. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    The fact is the OTA broadcasts are in MPEG2 format and DIRECTV re-encodes all HD OTA into MPEG4 format. Whether that is a full decode and re-encode or it is a transcode that never leaves the digital domain is irrelevant... there is still the transformation from MPEG2 to MPEG4 at which time...
  6. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Because of course it would be foolish to give the individual user the option to display more or less. More brain dead "same-old-same-old" that we've come to expect from the DIRECTV GUI design team.
  7. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I've never had it not work if I actually stopped the playback before trying to resume in another room. I don't try to resume in another room a whole lot, but if the resume point weren't being properly saved, I would think that I would see resume problems when stopping and resuming the watching...
  8. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Contrary to what many have suggested here, unless you are recording the actual OTA channel (which would be 5-1 in this particular case) using the OTA tuner in your DVR, the bitrate of the original broadcast transmission of an OTA channel doesn't have anything to do with the amount of space that...
  9. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Of course this would be rather simple to fix. Right now the DVR software saves a new resume point whenever the playback of a recording is stopped. They just have to modify the software to also save a new resume point whenever the pause button is pushed to pause the playback of a recorded...
  10. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    They (the software development people) were made aware of this lost functionality months ago. They are either unable to properly track issue reports that they receive, or they have made a poor decision to give us LESS functionality with the new info banner based options. Sometimes it's really...
  11. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    That's pretty much baseless speculation that the posts quoted below pretty well contradict. We're not talking about record/save capability... just the most basic navigation functions. Let's not go out of our way to make excuses for the poor/half baked implementation that DIRECTV is providing on...
  12. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Because the Youtube function is based on a poorly thought out half-baked design. The lack of FF & rewind capability makes this function pretty worthless.
  13. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    One big need for 480p is that a lot of TVs (most?) will not accept a 480i signal over HDMI, so 480i source must minimally be upconverted to 480p in order for it to be viewable on the TV's HDMI input
  14. DIRECTV Programming
    That's absolute and unequivical nonsense, unless perhaps you are talking about HR24 DVRs only. I won't bother commenting on this paragraph because it has absolutely nothing to do with the lack of responsiveness in the HR2x DVRs, but when I push a button on my remote and the corresponding...
  15. DIRECTV Programming
    So you want DIRECTV to devote limited development resources and limited processing resources within the DVR to add a feature that was essentially made obsolete by the DVR's ability to change channels and record the channel it changes to because it solves your problem of (for some odd undisclosed...
  16. DIRECTV Programming
    Saying that you or anyone else would buy a 3D TV if it cost about the same as a non-3D TV AND if the 3D image was visible to the naked eye the same way that a non-3D TV image was, isn't saying very much, and by the time that situation comes to pass, I suspect that 3D TV will will have long been...
  17. DIRECTV Programming
    Seeing that there are a number of people to whom it is very important to watch stuff on TV at the exact same time that other people around them (or even thousands of miles away from them) do, and/or watch something at an exact date and time that some corporate entity decides is the best watching...
  18. DIRECTV Programming
    Exactly. Even a live sporting event that I might want to watch live from the very beginning is ALWAYS also going to be scheduled to be recorded on my DVR. That way if I somehow get distracted and am not sitting in front of my TV when the game comes on, I still don't miss any part of it. Also...
  19. DIRECTV Programming
    I would certainly disagree with the second half of that sentence. The DIRECTV DVRs have never been more sluggish and poorly-responsive to remote commands than they are today, and I suspect it's because of all the features that have been crammed into the box. Until they can address and solve...
  20. DIRECTV Programming
    Autotune isn't an advanced feature that's "years ahead" of anything.... it's a retro feature.... it was on many of the old DIRECTV receivers back in the 90's, way back in the days before DVRs when the best way to avoid missing a show was to autotune it and hope that you were sitting in front of...
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