[Stuart Sweet]

I predict that we'll have the following:

DirecTV Software Release 0xYM (that's right, this release is so great that they had to move to a base-34 numbering scheme to account for it... or maybe the YM stands for 'yo mama')

New Features:
-OTA is enabled for all markets simultaneously

-All locals are available to all markets (who cares about the FCC, they don't control space, WE control space)

-7 HD, 25 SD, and 144 OTA buffers all active at the same time

-All menus in 1080p

-New anti-hater technology can detect rants a mile away and can zap the offender with a blinding blue ray of death (yep, that's what the LEDs are for)

-Totally open-source, easily modified. All video available to transfer to PCs immediately (who cares about those pansies at the MPAA and RIAA)

-New MPEG-12 technology allows for 750 hours of HD on the current hardware

-super, nuclear-launch-facility-quality reliability

-ability to go back in time and record items you forgot to schedule

Also a small, St. Christopher-type statue of Earl will be sent to the user upon request.

...and I guarantee there will still be complainers.

<<obviously, do not bother telling me why this is impossible>>

 

[Stuart Sweet]

Don't you all have something better to do?

SSSHHHH.. others think I'm working.

 

[Stuart Sweet]

Even if I wasn't one I still wouldn't. It's far more fun knowing something that everyone else wants to know.

Oh you're evil.

 

[Stuart Sweet]

How about the ability to go back in time and record programs HR20 dropped from the ToDo list after you scheduled, and re-scheduled, and rescheduled....? That would be cool!

Yeah, I started to write that but I didn't want to re-re-re-re-open that particular can of beans.

I was also thinking of

-HR20, along with a lenticular filter, allows the display of 2 programs simultaneously. Imagine, you get porn, she gets gardening. [actually saw something like this at this year's CES].