New relationship with DirecTV

[thunderdr]

I'm new to this forum, so thanks for welcoming me. I live in the Chicagoland area, and I have DirecTV.

Years ago I enjoyed having TiVo. Ohhh I remember those nice days. A few years ago i had my TiVo DVR crash and burn and I had to switch to DirecTV's version of their DVR and the programming was and still is terrible. Of course this is probably no news to any of you.

So now I'm hearing rumours, as I'm sure you have in the recent past, of DirecTV possibly making a deal in "Early 2008" with TiVo to start using their DVRs and programming service again. Oh the joy! If its true.

I am also coincidentally, remodeling my family room and have the opportunity to upgrade to all new components of HD and surround sound!

So here's my question after that brutally long background story...

Should I wait it out a bit to upgrade to HD in the hopes that DirecTV will make this partnership with TiVo and get the TiVo HD DVRs that I so much desire. Or, should I give up this futile dream and just go ahead with DirecTVs HD DVRs and their ugly programming??

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

[Cudahy]

Many of us have been hopefully looking for clues that a renewed releationship would happen, but as far as I can tell there has been nothing since last July.
What rumours have you heard?
I've been going on the assumption that if anything were to happen it would be after John Malone takes over Directv. That's been dragging on for over 6 months now.

[thunderdr]

Yes Cudahy,

I guess my rumor news was a bit old, it posted in Aug of 07.


The title of the article was:

Rekindling the love: TiVo, DirecTV announce big update, more collaboration
By Ken Fisher | Published: August 01, 2007


I just did a little more digging and saw that DirecTV made a deal at the end of last year with ReplayTV. Not very good news for me and TiVo.

DirecTV Deals for ReplayTV Assets (from Cable Digital News, Dec 13, 2007)

DirecTV Group Inc. (NYSE: DTV - message board) sealed a deal today to purchase the assets of digital video recorder (DVR) pioneer ReplayTV from D&M Holdings Inc. of Japan for an undisclosed sum, but the satellite giant has been mum so far about how the move will fit into any larger strategy. (See DirecTV Picks Up ReplayTV.)

What's puzzling is that DirecTV already has a DVR. The company first partnered with TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO - message board) for the feature and still supports TiVo-equipped satellite boxes. Its new DVRs use software from News Corp. corporate cousin NDS Group plc (Nasdaq: NNDS - message board), and DirecTV recently extended a conditional access contract with NDS that's good through June 2013.


Aghhh....

[classicsat]

I said this before. That announcement was about software features for existing boxes, not new hardware.

You can get a replacement DirecTV TiVo in the aftermarket though.

[TolloNodre]

Should I wait it out a bit to upgrade to HD in the hopes that DirecTV will make this partnership with TiVo and get the TiVo HD DVRs that I so much desire. Or, should I give up this futile dream and just go ahead with DirecTVs HD DVRs and their ugly programming??



There is no way, no how and no reason for another DirecTV Tivo.
Their DVR works - no Tivo - but it works. And as another poster said, they just bought the ReplayTV patents.

If you want HD from DirecTV, you have to use the HR20/HR21.