I use it a little. I used to use it a lot, but DirecTV now has HD locals over satellite in my area and they look almost as good as the OTA channels.
I still use it for PBS, for one local station that isn't carried in HD in DirecTV and I use it to record CSI because I think I can see the quality difference when recording that show (but not in any others).
DirectTV's MPEG-4 re-encoded satellite locals take up a lot less space on the PVR than the MPEG-2 OTA locals.
I'd say much the same thing except I still have an older HR10-250 attached with OTA in, so I use that for backup recording of series shows. I find that the DirecTV HD feed to my HR20 sometimes fails, so I still need the backup. Oh, and PBS, too.
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I use it a little. I used to use it a lot, but DirecTV now has HD locals over satellite in my area and they look almost as good as the OTA channels.
I still use it for PBS, for one local station that isn't carried in HD in DirecTV and I use it to record CSI because I think I can see the quality difference when recording that show (but not in any others).
DirectTV's MPEG-4 re-encoded satellite locals take up a lot less space on the PVR than the MPEG-2 OTA locals.
I'd say much the same thing except I still have an older HR10-250 attached with OTA in, so I use that for backup recording of series shows. I find that the DirecTV HD feed to my HR20 sometimes fails, so I still need the backup. Oh, and PBS, too.