Agreed, DTV is definitely the way to go especially with the new HD channels coming in just over a month. I miss my Tivo but I must say its almost worth the swap to get to record anything I want in HD now. I still use one of the old RCA DTV/Tivo units in my bedroom however and I'd give almost ANYTHING for Direct to FINALLY activate that freaking USB Ethernet support my old Series 2 box had. I live on the outskirts of town where every phone call is a long distance call, charged by the minute (remember those days???) and my only phone jack is about 30 feet away from my box. Once a month, I have to break down and plug in my extra, extra long phone cord and download (and PAY FOR) my scheduling info. Man, I hate having to do that...
I've noticed that my HR20 has pretty much all the bugs worked out of it and it is finally getting the "rewind" feature now when I fast forward thru commercials so I don't have to manually back it up now to catch what I passed when programming started back up. That's another feature that was sorely missed that I don't have to miss anymore. Now, if they could just rework the program guide so it looked more like the Tivo format I'd be completely happy.
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Agreed, DTV is definitely the way to go especially with the new HD channels coming in just over a month. I miss my Tivo but I must say its almost worth the swap to get to record anything I want in HD now. I still use one of the old RCA DTV/Tivo units in my bedroom however and I'd give almost ANYTHING for Direct to FINALLY activate that freaking USB Ethernet support my old Series 2 box had. I live on the outskirts of town where every phone call is a long distance call, charged by the minute (remember those days???) and my only phone jack is about 30 feet away from my box. Once a month, I have to break down and plug in my extra, extra long phone cord and download (and PAY FOR) my scheduling info. Man, I hate having to do that...
I've noticed that my HR20 has pretty much all the bugs worked out of it and it is finally getting the "rewind" feature now when I fast forward thru commercials so I don't have to manually back it up now to catch what I passed when programming started back up. That's another feature that was sorely missed that I don't have to miss anymore. Now, if they could just rework the program guide so it looked more like the Tivo format I'd be completely happy.
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