vic102482
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| DTV should focus on HDTV and lowering prices
They could easily sqeeze competetors like comcast into a pinch if they added some more value to their service like a free tivo with 2 year signup or something like that, and stopped charging for extra recievers. Latency and satellite will always be a problem, you are talking 26,000 miles round trip.
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Jeremy341
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| said by vic102482  :Latency and satellite will always be a problem, you are talking 26,000 miles round trip. It's actually 22,000 miles one way, and 44,000 miles round trip. It takes about 250 milliseconds for a round trip, so considering the fact that the signal has to make two round trips for Internet access, the distance alone is adding 500 milliseconds. Then you have to include the time it takes for the data to get from the NOC to the server, and back. There's just no way of reducing the latency with geosynchronous satellites.
That being said, and me being a DirecTV customer, I was very glad to hear that they were re-purposing Spaceway to do HD.
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Queasy
join:2004-01-20
Lawrenceville, GA
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There are a lot of things I'd like DTV to do. Freeing up these satellites for more HDTV is a start. I believe they are launching two more satellites early next year and are planning on having 1500+ HD channels available.
I'd also like for them to turn on the USB ports on the DirecTivos and enable the HMO option. I've upgraded my main DirecTivo receiver in my living room to record 160 hours but would like to share the content with the DirecTivo receiver in the bedroom.
However, since DirecTV and Tivo seem to be on the way out when their contract ends, that may be wishful thinking. |
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vic102482
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| said by Queasy :There are a lot of things I'd like DTV to do. Freeing up these satellites for more HDTV is a start. I believe they are launching two more satellites early next year and are planning on having 1500+ HD channels available. I'd also like for them to turn on the USB ports on the DirecTivos and enable the HMO option. I've upgraded my main DirecTivo receiver in my living room to record 160 hours but would like to share the content with the DirecTivo receiver in the bedroom. However, since DirecTV and Tivo seem to be on the way out when their contract ends, that may be wishful thinking. Whats going to happen to existing tivo users?
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Queasy
join:2004-01-20
Lawrenceville, GA
| said by vic102482 :Whats going to happen to existing tivo users? Dunno. I imagine the hardware would still be usable (Ultimate TV is still supported despite being dead) but there would be no new DTV/Tivo product lines. DirecTV is supposed to be coming out with their own DVR in the next year or so based off of technology from a UK company. Keep in mind though that the DirecTV/Tivo contract runs to 2006 or 2007. |
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vic102482
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| said by Queasy : said by vic102482 :Whats going to happen to existing tivo users? Dunno. I imagine the hardware would still be usable (Ultimate TV is still supported despite being dead) but there would be no new DTV/Tivo product lines. DirecTV is supposed to be coming out with their own DVR in the next year or so based off of technology from a UK company. Keep in mind though that the DirecTV/Tivo contract runs to 2006 or 2007. I wish they could part ways, Im sick of not being able to transfer to my computer without hhaving to modify the box. I got alot of shows like the DIY and just crazy football games that I dont want to delete. Itd be so mch easier if I could put it on my computer to burn to DVD.
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Nightfall
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said by Queasy : said by vic102482 :Whats going to happen to existing tivo users? Dunno. I imagine the hardware would still be usable (Ultimate TV is still supported despite being dead) but there would be no new DTV/Tivo product lines. DirecTV is supposed to be coming out with their own DVR in the next year or so based off of technology from a UK company. Keep in mind though that the DirecTV/Tivo contract runs to 2006 or 2007. Tivo is still king right now in my opinion. Directivo is the greatest thing since sliced bread and has changed the way I watch TV. Now, if Directv does ditch Tivo and come out with a new box, that is fine. It is my hope that this other DVR will be better than Tivo which is why they would move to it.
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mglunt
join:2001-09-10
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| reply to Queasy
From a couple Tivo / DTV message boards, I have heard that Tivo will continue to be DTV's "premium" DVR for the fee, with something else with maybe no fee or a smaller fee as a standard option.
DTV would anger a ton of their customers if they cut ties with Tivo... including me.
Maybe DTV plans to finally upgrade to 4.0 (HMO support), charge more for the Tivo, but offer the standard DVR without service fees or something. I do think that stand alone Tivo service is more with HMO than without. Not sure on that though. |
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Hayward
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said by vic102482 :you are talking 26,000 miles round trip. Sorry no more like 92,000 miles 2 way round trip... and still 46,000 for land return systems.
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JofCore
join:2004-09-15
Sebewaing, MI
| reply to Queasy
I'd also like for them to turn on the USB ports on the DirecTivos and enable the HMO option. I've upgraded my main DirecTivo receiver in my living room to record 160 hours but would like to share the content with the DirecTivo receiver in the bedroom.
I'm pretty sure you can enable the USB ports on the DirecTivos w/a hack. I have a series1 which doesn't have USB, so I'm not positive though (had to add internal network card on mine  )
Anyway, once you enable the USB and get a USB network adapter, you can then extract and insert shows into either TiVo. I'm not sure if there's a way to "share" w/out the manual extraction/insertion process. (You can, however, stream programs directly off your TiVo to an xbox running XBMC...)
A couple places to look for info are:
www.tivocommunity.com
www.dealdatabase.com/forum/ |
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said by vic102482 :I wish they could part ways, Im sick of not being able to transfer to my computer without hhaving to modify the box. I got alot of shows like the DIY and just crazy football games that I dont want to delete. Itd be so mch easier if I could put it on my computer to burn to DVD. Bear in mind that regardless of who is providing DVR's for DirecTV, it's always going to be difficult to get them to allow you to transfer perfect digital copies of shows off DTV and onto DVD. Hollywood is not going to like that one bit. |
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vic102482
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| said by Eat Me : said by vic102482 :I wish they could part ways, Im sick of not being able to transfer to my computer without hhaving to modify the box. I got alot of shows like the DIY and just crazy football games that I dont want to delete. Itd be so mch easier if I could put it on my computer to burn to DVD. Bear in mind that regardless of who is providing DVR's for DirecTV, it's always going to be difficult to get them to allow you to transfer perfect digital copies of shows off DTV and onto DVD. Hollywood is not going to like that one bit. Yeah but doesnt Tivos competetor allow that out of the box?
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