DirecTV/TiVo to update DTivos. (See they haven't completely given up on DTiVo)

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awww, yeah, but it's just better hearing it from you, dude.

Your directv contacts are better than mine ever were!

 

Even the series 1 standalone boxes never progressed past the 4.x software.

 

You all better get your phone lines ready The update comes from the sat but the phone activate.

 

Well, perhaps Directv finally gets it--that many of us are with Directv because of TIVO--that the HR20 and R15 have caused them countless returns and countless calls due to lock ups, missed recordings, and other problems. The minute (if/when) Directv comes out with new Directivos, my Hr20s are being shipped back.

 

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unless you know how to do it manually

 

Why they would announce a plan to provide a future software update to hardware that will eventually be useless with the MPEG4 stream is beyond me. At least, that's how I see it (I could be wrong). In saying that...

Imagine two DVR options, a "premium" (DirecTiVo) unit for say $9.99 and the current "generic" offerings for $5.99?

 

Because the standard definition stream is not MPEG-4

 

The "remote booking" feature could be delivered over the satellite and not require a network connection. There would be no way to confirm it (unless the satellite info triggered a call). I doubt that DirecTV will enable the USB ports, but I'd love to be proved wrong.

 

I thought over time, "everything" would be done via MPEG4. Or am I confusing the type of compression with instead HD broadcasts replacing SD broadcasts?

 

For the foreseeable future standard definition will remain mpeg-2. The cost to DirecTV to replace millions of standard definition receivers would be to large.

 

Good news for Series 2 DirecTivos. Have 2 myself.

Just an FYI that that HR20 has been networked enabled for some time, nearly since release. The R15 however isn't.

 

They better hurry, Rupert is buying Dow Jones.

 

I'm afraid it's going to happen, eb. The Golden Age of DirecTV under the inspired leadership of the FoxMaster is coming to a conclusion.

We'll all understand if you want to take a few days off, to come to terms with it, get yourself together.

 

I think it is little more than glimmer, I think it is a sign of things to come, much more significant. I want to hear about a new HD Tivo DVR for DTV

 

Yes, I hope third time is the charm. I'd not want to read too much into this:

But it is one indication that there is more to it. The words were spoken by VP of Content strategy, it may mean content via the net? Amazon?, or may be ad content? Or all things Tivo technology can offer. It makes sense in terms of business. DTV is in business to make money and they do not need to include NDS in the equation, which clouded the picture for DTV before. Now DTV can play without being tied to NDS, offer more options and let the market choose the best DVR.

Another point to keep in mind is Tivo patents, (against which the previous agreement gave an insurance to DTV, until 2010). Once that is settled it is going to be a different landscape in DVR world.

 

Earl,

Remember my post of a little over a week ago,

But then again, "Patience is a virtue!" or "Good things come to those who wait!".

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"Patience is a virtue. The ability to wait for something without excessive frustration is a valuable character trait. The proverb has been traced back to 'Piers Plowman' (1377) by William Langland and is similar to the Latin, Maxima enim..patientia virtus (Patience is the greatest virtue) and the French, Patience est une grant vertu. (Patience is a great value.) Some ten years after Langland, Chaucer wrote in 'The Canterbury Tales' (1386) that 'Patience is a high virtue.' Sometimes followed by the wry rejoinder 'but virtue can hurt you.' First cited in the United States in 1724 in the 'Works of Thomas Chalkley' (1766)..."

Of course, this could be the first step of many to come.

A week ago even you ("the Great Earl") wouldn't have predicted this, would you?

I believe this is more in-line towards realizing that "TiVo" and Comcast, Moxi, and others are just around the corner in the cable world, and there are still many more DirecTiVos installed than all of the other DirecTV DVR's and will be for many years to come.

It is very unlikely that the DirecTV DVR will even come close to 10% of all DirecTV DVR's installed within the foreseeable future, so the DirecTiVos are going to be around for a long time, and somebody at DirecTV finally woke up.