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DIRECTV HR10-250 200 Hour DIRECTV DVR w/ TiVo

MPN: HR10250

Description: This feature-rich receiver allows you to enjoy all your satellite TV on your own terms. With the HR10-250, you can access high definition and standard definition DIRECTV programming, as well as off-air ATSC digital broadcasts from one receiver in digital form on an internal... read more

This feature-rich receiver allows you to enjoy all your satellite TV on your own terms. With the HR10-250, you can access high definition and standard definition DIRECTV programming, as well as off-air ATSC digital broadcasts from one receiver in digital form on an internal hard disk drive. Integrated TiVo records up to 30 hours of DIRECTV high-definition programming or up to 200 hours of standard definition programming. With your 250 GB Hard Drive, it allows you to watch whenever you're ready. You also get a 30-minute buffer of live programming, random access to titled programming, instant replay of live or recorded programs, and digital accurate fast forward, rewind, slow motion, frame forward, I-frame back and high-quality freeze frame. This set-top box also has HDMI and Digital Audio outputs to optimize home theater and HDTV components. minimize

HR10-250 HDTivo

Strengths:

Plenty of room for HD programming. All the necessary bundled cables including HDMI.

Weaknesses:

Menus load a lot slower than regular Hughes/DirecTV Tivo unit. Slight sound delay that I haven't found a fix for yet (has been present on all my previous DirecTV hardware).

Posted Oct 3, 2005 - I searched the web for discussion boards relating to DirecTV HD and this unit. From what I've been told, this has all the hardware needed for the newest Directv HD satellite deployments (2 in orbit with 2 more on the way). I managed to find that DirecTV has an unpublished offer for current customers of $299 for this unit, and there's a $100 rebate through October. Since I got an HD TV earlier this year and I don't get enough over the air channels to bother with an antenna, I had had enough of no HD viewing opportunities. As said above, the unit's menus are a bit slow. Directv's hd lineup is modest, and the major network feeds add a whole lot more (I wouldn't have signed up if the networks weren't offered.) Lots of sports viewing opportunities unless you're an NHL fan, in which case your only choice is HDNET (3 games a week) and NBC (2 games a week starting in January). The NHL blew it as far as HD when they didn't get another ESPN contract.

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Strengths:

Good signal, picture on the channels you receive.

Weaknesses:

Slow, DirecTV only offers local channels in big markets.

Posted Jun 15, 2006 - My biggest peave is that I live in the mid-Atlantic and all I recieve is the freaking Discovery Channel. YOU WILL NOT get all the channels because of in-fighting with Cable, Satellite and the networks. Just save yourself the frustration and get a cable HD box until they figure this out.

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