DirecTV releases 2nd wave of HD Channels

kooldak said

Unfortunately, you cannot get a TiVo that receives the new D* HD channels. Just the older channels delivered in MPEG-2. I miss several of the TiVo features, but once you get used to the new HD DVRs, they aren't so bad. And D* seems to upgrading the capability of the new DVRs pretty regularly. The biggest problem with the D* DVRs is documentation. Here is a good link to help the change from TiVo to D* DVR:

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=72648

Still, I really, really miss the TiVo wish list. D* has something sorta, kinda similar but not nearly as good, IMHO...

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Thanks for the response, kooldak.

Here's what I miss: bouncing back and forth between the two tuners on a Tivo box. I'd watch two football games this way, for example, but while recording neither. It seems the only way to get to the second tuner on this new box is to start recording something then check out another channel. And there seems no button for switiching back and forth between the two tuners. And it seems that if you are recording something, switch the channel to watch something else, go back to recorded program, go back to other tuner and it hasn't been recording the stuff on that one. I don't think that makes sense.

I really miss my Tivo box is what I'm saying. :)