[Tom Robertson]

Hope you all are well and happy today.

I'm going to CES and will be trying to buttonhole Directv (and others) and then report back here what I find out. As you are an erudite group in general and I'm likely to forget something, are there any questions you'd like me to ask (that won't get me thrown out!)

Thanks all,
Tom

 

[Pink Fairy]

Am I lost? CES? -confused-

 

[Tom Robertson]

Am I lost? CES? -confused-

Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, next week. Annual gadget blast with all the coolest, newest toys that may or may not make it to the market.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[Pink Fairy]

-drools- That would be so awesome, cept for it is in Vegas (I drove through Vegas near the end of October - on a Monday morning at 6:30 - I thought I was going to die!!!)

But I know me and my husband would love to go to that, it would be awesome, I cannot wait see whatchya say about it when ya get back!

 

[Elistan98]

How about nailing them down a bit on what channels they are negotiating with?


Also I read one of the sats have been pushed back to september. how will that affect the 40 national hd roll out?


Are they working on a portable device to transder dvr'd programs to and when will it be released and at what price.

A personal question of mine would be are they in negotiaions with funimation channel or The Anime Network?

With the bad press that the HR20 has been receiving how long until the most prevlant bugs are sqashed (ie bad recordings, rbr's every week or so for some people)?

When will the ability to set recordings from the inet will be enabled?

Are there any new hardward coming down the line in the next year or so?

Ill think of more later.

 

[Paperboy2003]

How about:

With the upcoming launch of new sats and the switch to MPEG4, do they plan on stopping the overcompression of the signal and bringing the HD picture quality back to where it should be....HD?

 

[leww37334]

The number 1 question should be " When will more National (NOT LIL) HD channels be added, and what will they be?

 

[tonyc]

Hope you all are well and happy today.

I'm going to CES and will be trying to buttonhole Directv (and others) and then report back here what I find out. As you are an erudite group in general and I'm likely to forget something, are there any questions you'd like me to ask (that won't get me thrown out!)

Thanks all,
Tom

Ask them about the redesigned user interface they mentioned in one of there annual reports, it's supposed to be introduced this year 2007

 

[carl6]

Find out what they have to say about the number of problems people appear to be having with the SD DVR (R15). While introduced well before the HR20, it is lagging the HR20 in upgrades and features and still has serious bugs in it.

Carl

 

[BruceS]

Ask whether an MPEG-4 decoder could be contained in a USB device so that we could continue to use our HR10-250 boxes and still receive MPEG-4 content.

 

[Radio Enginerd]

-drools- That would be so awesome, cept for it is in Vegas (I drove through Vegas near the end of October - on a Monday morning at 6:30 - I thought I was going to die!!!)

But I know me and my husband would love to go to that, it would be awesome, I cannot wait see whatchya say about it when ya get back!

I attended CES last year and it was AWESOME. A bit overwhelming and large but still AWESOME.

 

[UncD2000]

The number 1 question should be " When will more National (NOT LIL) HD channels be added, and what will they be?

This is my #1 question as well. D* is the only major player without Cinemax HD, and I personally see no point in subscribing to Max without HD. National Geographic HD will also be a welcome addition.

 

[RAD]

#1, do they have a firm launch date for D10 and D11 yet and if yes, what are they?
#2, how long after launch do they expect before they will start adding all the new national HD channels that they said they would now have the capacity to provide?
#3, when will the H20 get a software update to add the 'active' feature, it's been over a year and we're still waiting?
#4, will NFL Sunday Ticket HD for 2007 season require a MPEG4/KA capable dish/receiver? If not, what will they do to prevent TNT-HD from being shut down during 2007 season like what occured in 2006?
#5, can they provide any details on what the L-I-N corporation wants that is holding up the retransmission agreement for their ATSC channels in a number of cities?

That's all off the top of my head. Good luck but I wouldn't expect them to answer any of these.

 

[jordanzimmerman]

I'm curious is DirecTV has a response to CableCard. In the not-too-distant future, we'll all be able to put a CableCard into our HTPCs and not need any set-top box. DirecTV will need an answer to this.

 

[Earl Bonovich]

I'm curious is DirecTV has a response to CableCard. In the not-too-distant future, we'll all be able to put a CableCard into our HTPCs and not need any set-top box. DirecTV will need an answer to this.

They answered that last year, with the announcement of the Microsoft/Intel/DirecTV join effort to have a PC card for HTPCs

The question I want asked, is what is the status of that product.

 

[mx6bfast]

How about:

With the upcoming launch of new sats and the switch to MPEG4, do they plan on stopping the overcompression of the signal and bringing the HD picture quality back to where it should be....HD?

+150684168413518416051068406510635106840635103854068540 :lol:

Also, are they going to roll with the multi room HD DVR server for home use?

Since there will be many HD channels, will we be able to sub to HD only packs? Or do we have to sub to a TC base package?

 

[mphare]

Yeah, the Home Media Center.. The HD DVR that could record up to 6 channels at the same time and connect to several remote units for displaying the content around the home.

Verizon FIOS has something that does this, but it can only do 2 channels at once.

I told them that wasn't enough for a home server.

 

[Mixer]

Lots of the quetions I would like answered have already been asked except.

1) Are they firm on releasing "Video On Demand" this year and

2) will it be streaming or will the content need to be downloaed before it can be viewed.

3) when will video support through VIIV be added to the already Photo and Music functions for the media server?

Thanks for doing this. I hope you come back with great answers from them.

 

[heaphus]

They answered that last year, with the announcement of the Microsoft/Intel/DirecTV join effort to have a PC card for HTPCs

The question I want asked, is what is the status of that product.

:up: +1

Please, any and all info you can get about a DTV/M$ MCE solution.

 

[DonCorleone]

Definitely the Home Media Center. I mean, that's really the key to the DVR that would sell me and others, I would think. And if they could give you a REAL date. If they were to tell you June, you should say, "just tell me November if it's November, please"