http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/ Engadget HD Comments for DIRECTV HD DVR delay official? http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/I wouldn't say that I'll be leaving Directv just yet. At least until the NFL Sunday Ticket is over with. I guess this will be the last year with Directv, as soon as Verizon hits my neighbor with their Fios. Goodbye DTV and Cox (still for HSI).

I have a Tivo box in the Living Room that my son mostly uses. I would like to put an HD version in the family room. ]]>Jul 24th 2006 9:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/Jul 24th 2006 11:47PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/
So, no I'm not changing, but Directv isn't getting any more money from this dtv customer. Really, this has turned into a joke.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:22AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/Jul 25th 2006 2:21AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/
I have not intention of buy a non-TiVo DVR. I have three DirecTV TiVo units, two HR10-250's and a SAT-T60, you will have to pry my TiVos from my cold dead hands. ]]>Jul 25th 2006 3:17AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/Jul 25th 2006 10:32AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/> there are no HD national channels that are not available to HD TiVo owners

I'm assuming this means 'DirecTV's current HD national channels are all HDTiVo receivable' which is true. But DISH certainly has many more HD national channels than DirectTV, and DirecTV is unlikely to be adding many more until their DVR is ready. DirecTV did recently add in-market only HD baseball games coded in MPEG4 and transmitted via spotbeam. These games are not HDTiVo compatible.

Some of the DISH channels are from the VOOM service, but recently HGTV and Food Network annouced HD broadcast, and at least HGTV-HD is on DISH now.

Now that TiVo's series III for cable service is almost ready, I'm almost ready to roll over to that technology anyway.]]>Jul 25th 2006 12:33PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/Jul 25th 2006 4:55PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/Jul 25th 2006 5:33PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/Jul 25th 2006 5:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/
Their plan since CES has been for an August rollout, and I have confirmed with DirecTV that they will be rolling it out to the LA market in "mid-August", and then to the rest of the country in the "weeks immediately following".

So yes, some markets might not have the units available until September/October ... but from everything I can tell their rollout is on-schedule.

Cheers,

- Shane Sturgeon]]>Jul 26th 2006 7:57AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/24/directv-hd-dvr-delay-offical/I am not sure who you spoke with, but they were telling me and a few others May at CES. I also contacted DIRECTV and they were not able to give me any information.

Here is an article from CES where DIRECTV told IGN it would be out in the 2nd quarter.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679224p1.html]]>Jul 26th 2006 9:14AM