something new mabey?

shaun-ohio said:

dont know if this has been posted or not before, but i ran across it today, i am watching something that i had recorded, click on the active button, takes me to the active channel and of course because of nfl sunday its turned off, hit the previous button, and it takes me back to the recording i was watching and picks up where i left off, that is neat, i love this feature, do i miss the tivo heck no, try getting the tivo to do this not!!!

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Sorry, but a Direct Tivo does do this. It is more predictable with how they implemented dual buffers. What you described ONLY works if you were recording; with a Direct Tivo you do not need to be recording to get this functionality.

duh read the fine print i said i was watching a program that i had recorded you know as playing it back, you tell me you can do this with the dirctv tivo i dont think so they only way you can do it is pause the pre-recorded show you are watching then back out out it the directv tivo does not have no active button on it not that im aware of and the only way you can get back to your pre-recorded program is to go back to the now playing list not by just hitting the previous button? besides my r10 has the same software it has had for ages the 6.1 and it has never been upgraded, and you can tell me you can do with the tivo as the hr20 i dont think so because i have both

I don't miss TiVo either.

See ya TiVo, don't let the door hit ya on the way out.

shaun-ohio said:

duh read the fine print i said i was watching a program that i had recorded you know as playing it back, you tell me you can do this with the dirctv tivo i dont think so they only way you can do it is pause the pre-recorded show you are watching then back out out it the directv tivo does not have no active button on it not that im aware of and the only way you can get back to your pre-recorded program is to go back to the now playing list not by just hitting the previous button? besides my r10 has the same software it has had for ages the 6.1 and it has never been upgraded, and you can tell me you can do with the tivo as the hr20 i dont think so because i have both

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Sorry, I misunderstood your fine point. It is not really worth debating/bragging about this but I am pretty (95%) sure when I leave a prerecorded show that when I come back to it it remembers where I left off. However you are correct, previous does not bring you back to a recorded show. That is arguablly nice--one less button click than on a Tivo. I too have an HR20, an R10 and an older Series 2 that I still use. I also owned Series 1. Because of the tivo suggests stuff I still keep an extra DirectTivo running...that and I was waiting for the stability to improve on the HR20.

I do like some features of the HR20 and other Tivo feature I miss and for me it is all a mixed bag. However with the increased stability of the HR20 I am seeing after the recent updates I am happy with it; however DirectTV really needs to crank-up the amount of HD content it offers.

shaun-ohio said:

... r10 has the same software it has had for ages the 6.1 and it has never been upgraded...

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Not sure that I want something that is working well getting software upgrades!

However, assuming you do, this has more to do with DirectTV wanting to use NDS and breaking off their relationship with Tivo than Tivo not wanting to upgrade the software. I am sure for example that Tivo would have loved to offer the HMO option but it was not their call. In the early years DirectTV offered many software updates to their Tivo based DVRs--although it was more stable out of the gate. It looks like they are doing the same with software upgrades for the HR20 but wait 3 or 4 years and let's see if they keep it up.

shaun-ohio said:

duh read the fine print i said i was watching a program that i had recorded you know as playing it back, you tell me you can do this with the dirctv tivo i dont think so they only way you can do it is pause the pre-recorded show you are watching then back out out it the directv tivo does not have no active button on it not that im aware of and the only way you can get back to your pre-recorded program is to go back to the now playing list not by just hitting the previous button? besides my r10 has the same software it has had for ages the 6.1 and it has never been upgraded, and you can tell me you can do with the tivo as the hr20 i dont think so because i have both

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If you're playing a recorded program on a DTivo you simply press Live TV and you jump to live TV, saving your place in the recorded program. Then if you want you can press Live TV again and flip to the 2nd live buffer and watch that channel. You can continue jumping between the two live buffers by pressing Live TV again and if you wish, you can pause each of those buffers. To resume watching your recorded program you press LIST and PLAY. That's it, no need to navigate through the menus unless you really really want to.

R10 has the same software as it always had because it's a stable software release. With DTV taking DVR development internal there will probably never be an update for the R10. But then again, it doesn't need one. It records what it's told to record and it plays what it has recorded.

Active button? No, there was no "active" content from DTV when the DTivos were being sold so there was no need for an ACTIVE button.

Wolffpack said:

Active button? No, there was no "active" content from DTV when the DTivos were being sold so there was no need for an ACTIVE button.

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I wish I could disable the lame active button. I always accidentally hit it. That is one button I did not copy to my HTM MX500 remote.

rsonnens said:

I wish I could disable the lame active button. I always accidentally hit it. That is one button I did not copy to my HTM MX500 remote.

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I have been tempted to crack open the remote to physically disable that button. Should be easy to do with an exacto knife or even putting some kind of insulator preventing the button from closing the circuit.

This should win an award for the worst button placement ever.