I was a longtime DirecTivo subscriber, but switched last year in order to get HD and tivo together. Our Time Warner became Comcast which, in a word, sucks.
Best news in months, maybe years. I love having episodes auto-downloaded to my computer and converted for watching on my iPhone. At the time cable was not offering tivo, which meant they were the only game in town. From the ability to use your network to stream pictures, music, amazon one box, scheduling a recording through the web I heard they offer this now — 2 years late and the feature is hidden somewhere on their site cuz i have no idea how to do it.
I will avoid this one like a bad plague. Avoid the dtv tivo crap now that we have options. I would guess that this will be similar to the Comcast solution, i.
Great news! I was thinking of leaving DTV, but maybe I can wait a year for the new box. If you were around back then, you probably remember how they totally dominated the DVR market.
And then… things started going south for the one-time market leader. At the same time, TiVo got itself embroiled in a high-profile patent lawsuit. Another company was accused of using their patents without permission. Although TiVo won its case, the cost of prosecution, and the time it took to collect, spelled doom for the small company. TiVo was bought by Rovi in , and we were there to tell you about it. Still, as surprising as it may seem, there are still faithful TiVo fans out there, still a few who cobble together home theater systems that do what they want.
When these three units were initially released, the software wasn't yet able to support the recording of two channels simultaneously. So the SAT 2 input had a cap on it when the units shipped from the factory. With the release of a software update, these units gained the ability to record two shows at once, as long as a second cable was run from the DirecTV dish or multi-switch and attached to the SAT 2 input.
Splitting an existing cable doesn't work with DirecTV technology. These DirecTiVos became very popular, especially once the dual-tuner recording was enabled. Many cable users changed over to DirecTV for this feature. In addition, cable customers who had problems with channel changing saw the value in having one integrated component, and many moved to DirecTV for that reason also.
With the then-current state of hardware, these units clearly had all of the advantages. These units are often called "Series2" units, but really don't have the same networking functionality of the standalone Series2 units, and this is really where the paths of the units begins to diverge.
The standalone units gain many features not available on the DirecTV units. With this new generation of units, DirecTV included a faster processor, a new remote above , and a totally new internal design.
Then RCA and Samsung also started producing units, and Hughes and Philips made slightly newer units with some minor design changes. Finally, when DirecTV began consolidating the hardware with their brand name, they released the DirecTV R10, and production on the other branded units totally stopped. All of these units are functionally identical and have several newer features than the first generation of DirecTiVos - notably, the folder feature in the Now Playing List.
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