http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/ Engadget Comments for DirecTV's new HR24 DVR to reach customers this quarter http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 26th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
You can see it in the video, it looks exactly the same. ]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 26th 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
As a former TiVo user, I still like the TiVo interface better, but I like the overall utility of the DirecTV HR2x units more. The user interface is much better than it was, and compared to a lot of the cable companies, it's really good. Sure, it isn't as intuitive as TiVo, but it is the best of the captive-market units I've seen.]]>Jan 26th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 27th 2010 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/"this DVR has somewhere between three and either tuners" either->eight?
"The best part is that since there's only server," there's only *a* server?
etc.]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/When they say connected by coax, how does that have to be setup? Will the server connect back through the coax and the switch and to all the devices? Does coax work the same as Cat5 network does? Right now the satellite signal comes in and hits the coax switch and goes out to all the boxes in the house. The HR24 would be at the end of one of these runs. Can it connect back to a client at the end of one of the other runs?]]>Jan 26th 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
A single serving-box limited to one external hard drive would potentially impact that ability.]]>Jan 26th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 26th 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
The RVU client built into TV's is a great idea too. A TV connected to full HD-DVR DirecTV experience and no box? Wow now theres a major one up on Cable.

Maybe Cable should join the RVU spec and figure the same thing out with a whole home 'gateway' box.

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To really make it work right you would need to run the single wire multiswitch solution. Then the Moca would run on the same cable. I wonder how many people would replace their multiswitches with the SWM due to the additional cost. I have them and they run great! Dont expect the DTV installers to know how to install them. I spent about 3 hours showing the DTV installer who showed up, HOW to install them.

Once the are up they work GREAT! and Moca too over the same cable.]]>Jan 26th 2010 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 26th 2010 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
The multituner home media server was the HMC30 Doug mentioned.

The HR24 and h24 are just slightly updated versions of the current dvrs/receivers. The built in MoCA, DirecTV calls it DECA and runs it at around 500mhz, is probably right but other than that the should be same specs as the hr23/h23. 2 tuners for the dvr etc.]]>Jan 26th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 26th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
Your unit is broken if it is doing that. ]]>Jan 26th 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 26th 2010 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Jan 26th 2010 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
-Brian]]>Jan 26th 2010 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/As already posted, the HR24 and H24 expected soon are just the next models in the DirecTV DVR and receiver families, they happen to use DECA which allows easy support of the recently-announced DirecTV MultiRoom Viewing capability. But they are NOT the RVU server and thin client that were shown at CES on the Entropic booth, that was the HMC30 and an un-numbered RVU client. They are apparently not expected until the end of 2010. ]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/
Thanks for the correction, I made an update to the post. Wishful thiniking I guess.]]>Jan 27th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Mar 24th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Mar 24th 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/26/directvs-new-hr24-dvr-to-reach-customers-this-quarter/Mar 24th 2010 6:30PM