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This is basically a real quick question. I know that the reason that the DTV DVR is not Tivo is NOT because of the MPEG-4 HD Locals, and I'm not even really sure I believe that DTV invented the HD-Locals on mpeg4 so that the Tivo unit becomes useless. I think it all started with some bad blood between the two, but enough on my stupid assumptions.
My question is simple (let me lead into it with some simple reception statements), I live in a house on the top of a hill, We have a "real" 15 foot amplified panel HD OTA antena on a rotor (which recieves ALL that I mention without actually adjusting it except for rare weird weather days). I actually get San Diego, Orange County, Riverside, and partial Corona (Los Angeles) Over the AIR HD Channels on my HD TV Tunner, and on my DTivo hr-10-250. Most of the time the affiliates are showing the same stuff, but on the days that it really matters most to me (baseball, football, and basketball game night and days) I actually get diffrent home team broadcasts. I know that I am extremely lucky.
Anyways, I purchased our 4th DirecTV HD DVR last week, #4 is the first hr-20-700 that I have recieved, the rest are hr-10-250's. Although we might learn to use the hr-20, its disadvantages far outweigh its advantages to me, especially with my aftermarket hacks I have done to all of our hr-10 units.
I was told I have to upgrade to the hr-20 units, and when I asked why, they said that because all future HD growth will be unavailable to the 3lnb dish and hr-10's that I own. I asked what the hd upgrades were and was told HD Locals.
Whoopie Doo. If you read what I said above, I get all the local HD's for 3 different markets, and even the PBS, and off market channels for all 3 of these markets. Is this true? Basically, the rep told me that the upgrade to the 5lnb dish was free (and that they would upgrade all 3 3lnb dish's I currently have, (we have a total of 9 dual tunner DVR's). The ability to get HD locals via satellite instead of via OTA is no advantage to me, right now, I cant even record OTA HD on the new hr-20 (from what I have read).
I am about to goto ebay and buy 2 or 3 hr-10-250 units, upgrade each with (2) 500gb hard drives, add the Networking hacks, and all the nice software modifications that I have on my other 2 hr-10's. The DTV HD DVR provides no advantages at all too me over my DTivo units.
Am I wrong, I know no one has a crystal ball, but in my situation with my strong over the air HD feeds, are my hr-10-250's going to loose functions from what they have NOW, or simply stay stagnant (i.e. NOT get any new HD feeds or hd locals) still working as they do today?
I suppose I would keep the hr-20-700 simply to warrant the free 5lnb dishes and for the rare situation where the hr-10-250's simply stop working (hopefully never).
Sorry about all that messed up clutter in my question, but I am simply looking for someone to tell me that if I dont need Satellite Fed (mpeg4) HD locals that I really dont need the hr-20 units.
Can someone offer some insight here into this, am I correct in my assumptions that because of my luck and my OTA HD signal strength that the HD upgrades that the mpeg4 5lnb dish feeds provide are mute points?
Thank you very much.
/-/SepticDeath-
My question is simple (let me lead into it with some simple reception statements), I live in a house on the top of a hill, We have a "real" 15 foot amplified panel HD OTA antena on a rotor (which recieves ALL that I mention without actually adjusting it except for rare weird weather days). I actually get San Diego, Orange County, Riverside, and partial Corona (Los Angeles) Over the AIR HD Channels on my HD TV Tunner, and on my DTivo hr-10-250. Most of the time the affiliates are showing the same stuff, but on the days that it really matters most to me (baseball, football, and basketball game night and days) I actually get diffrent home team broadcasts. I know that I am extremely lucky.
Anyways, I purchased our 4th DirecTV HD DVR last week, #4 is the first hr-20-700 that I have recieved, the rest are hr-10-250's. Although we might learn to use the hr-20, its disadvantages far outweigh its advantages to me, especially with my aftermarket hacks I have done to all of our hr-10 units.
I was told I have to upgrade to the hr-20 units, and when I asked why, they said that because all future HD growth will be unavailable to the 3lnb dish and hr-10's that I own. I asked what the hd upgrades were and was told HD Locals.
Whoopie Doo. If you read what I said above, I get all the local HD's for 3 different markets, and even the PBS, and off market channels for all 3 of these markets. Is this true? Basically, the rep told me that the upgrade to the 5lnb dish was free (and that they would upgrade all 3 3lnb dish's I currently have, (we have a total of 9 dual tunner DVR's). The ability to get HD locals via satellite instead of via OTA is no advantage to me, right now, I cant even record OTA HD on the new hr-20 (from what I have read).
I am about to goto ebay and buy 2 or 3 hr-10-250 units, upgrade each with (2) 500gb hard drives, add the Networking hacks, and all the nice software modifications that I have on my other 2 hr-10's. The DTV HD DVR provides no advantages at all too me over my DTivo units.
Am I wrong, I know no one has a crystal ball, but in my situation with my strong over the air HD feeds, are my hr-10-250's going to loose functions from what they have NOW, or simply stay stagnant (i.e. NOT get any new HD feeds or hd locals) still working as they do today?
I suppose I would keep the hr-20-700 simply to warrant the free 5lnb dishes and for the rare situation where the hr-10-250's simply stop working (hopefully never).
Sorry about all that messed up clutter in my question, but I am simply looking for someone to tell me that if I dont need Satellite Fed (mpeg4) HD locals that I really dont need the hr-20 units.
Can someone offer some insight here into this, am I correct in my assumptions that because of my luck and my OTA HD signal strength that the HD upgrades that the mpeg4 5lnb dish feeds provide are mute points?
Thank you very much.
/-/SepticDeath-
