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November 09, 2004

Can I record on one DirecTV TiVo, and watch on another?

I'm wondering if anyone has successfully set up their DirecTV TiVos, so that a program can be recorded on one machine, and watched on the other.  DirecTV tells me that feature is available on stand-alone TiVos (as part of the Home Media option), but not with their DirecTV TiVo receivers.  Has anyone successfully gotten around this restriction?
-- Andy Burdick

November 9, 2004 in DirecTiVo, Networking

Answers

Currently, no, there's no way to do this officially.

Unofficially, you can try hacking your DirecTiVo to use the 4.0 OS instead of the 3.1 OS that DirecTV has currently frozen the devices on.

Here's a post I made linking to a guide on how to do that:
http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2004/09/guide_to_hackin.html

Posted by: Matt Haughey at Nov 15, 2004 3:26:16 PM

I would also suggest filing a complaint with DirecTV about this - the HW can do it, and the SW is available. They have made a deliberate choice to keep these features from their users.

Posted by: MegaZone at Nov 16, 2004 4:09:49 PM

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