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Like many of you, I'm a customer of DirecTV, the satellite service. DirecTV used to have a partnership with Tivo, which, a few years ago, released a high-definition DirecTV Tivo receiver. It actually cost about $1,000 when it first came out. We got it just before they phased it out (we paid less than half that), and although DirecTV still services the Tivo high-def receiver (as well as its standard-definition Tivo receivers), it is becoming more and more of a problem to have one. DirecTV announced a while back that it will no longer carry in high definition -- on its Tivo high-def receiver only -- most of the games on its NFL Sunday Ticket package. That's a problem, especially if you've forked over several hundred dollars for the Sunday Ticket package (and you had to lay out even more $$ for the high-def Sunday Ticket package). DirecTV will hand over for free its own high-def DVR -- which I strongly urge you to take (and which carries no such restrictions). They're doing this, obviously, to try to wean people from the Tivo high-def receiver. But, I have gotten used to it and now actually prefer it over the Tivo receiver in many respects. (Click below to read on!) One area in which it far surpasses the Tivo receiver is its "list" function, which holds a lot of content and keeps it there for months (until you run out, or until you delete something). Taking full advantage, I have stored a ton of movies -- About a Boy and Notting Hill, Steve McQueen's Bullitt, Witness for the Prosecution, Places in the Heart, Network, The Graduate and many more. The source of most of these great movies is Mark Cuban's HDNet movie channel, which carries them unedited, uncut AND in high definition. They just stay there on the DVR, waiting to be watched. And the new DirecTV DVR carries many more channels in high definition than does its older (and, I fear, hopelessly outdated) Tivo counterpart. |
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