DirecTV Blackout and why I love my HR10

Uhh, my DirecTV HD DVR has OTA inputs. In fact, all of the DirecTV HD DVRs do.

 

No, they all don't.

The older HR20 does come with OTA built in, but those are being phased out in favor of the new HR21 which does NOT have OTA built in. DirecTV is beta testing a new OTA tuner 'add-on' for the HR21 called the AM21. Here's a review of it from DBSTalk:
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=123012

 

My apologies, I thought this was already in the wild.

 

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My HR20 has OTA inputs but I am over 70 miles from the NBC towers so I missed Earl, 30 Rock, and The Office last night.

 

So you contradicted yourself here. You said "all of the DirecTV HD DVRs do" but then you you say you thought there was an external box which is not the same as them having it built in. In fact the external box is going to cost $100.00.

 

So what happened to the feeds and was it everyone, just the national feeds or several markets? Either way I guess I am glad I switched back to using the OTA on my HR20's last week.

 

I am in the Houston Market. The other day during an Astros Game, the same splash screen was on my HR21, HDVR2 and RCA Combo box.

I tuned to the station using OTA and the station itself had a spalsh screen and just audio?

Not saying it didn't happen to you, but your thread title about the blackout and the content of your post do not co-inside.

 

NY NBC HD was AWOL last night. Started about midnight eastern time.

 

$100? Have you seen this on the Directv website, or is it speculation from what the 3rd party vendors have as a guesstimate. Last thing I saw was about 60.00 US

 

Where did you see $60? DirecTV website?

 

That was the announced price at CES.

There are a couple online dealers taking pre-orders and they are charging $99. Just in case I guess. But I believe they say that they will charge only the actual retail price. But still, why take the chance and get overcharged.

 

Yeah, I have seen the $99 preorders only on a few sites, but was hoping to find a $60 outlet for my dad and his HR21. I OTOH have two HR20's so I don't need one.

 

It looks like valueelectronics has them pre-order for $60.

 

Jerk much? I guess I considered the tuner attachment to be one box because there is not, as far as I know, a separate controller for it and it will be controlled from the HR21. I was also under the impression that new customers that requested an HR20 and received an HR21 instead would be getting the tuner box for free. But I'm sure you'll point out to me where I'm wrong and have contradicted myself again.

Thanks.

 

No problems with the DirecTV NBC feed in Dallas/Fort Worth on that night.

 

Still,

How is this a DirecTv Blackout? Maybe the signal from the station to DTV had an issue? Who's to blame? BOTH.

And in my case, I have an OTA antenna connected to my HDTV, and the signal was still out, but at least I had audio.

I have to SD DVR's (combo's) so I can still record the locals if needed. I find myself watching HD stuff live whenever possible and will choose the OTA signal over the DVR's tuner.

 

My forever reliable HR10-250 is still being used to back up the forever faulty HR20-100.

 

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