January 29, 2006

HD PVR

HI, I have been holding off buying a HD PVR as I had hoped Motorola would release an newer version of the DCT 6412,  If I am correct the DCT 6412 was released in the fall of 2004. Is there an new model ready for release, bigger hard drive more efficient ASIC chips, maybe H.264, faster menus?
--Brad

January 29, 2006 in DVR, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (4)

January 25, 2006

Standalone HD DVR

Looking for an option besides the soon-to-be-not-so-compatible HR10250 for recording HD content from both DirecTV and off-air sources. Currently have an integrated DirecTV/Tivo for standard-def with a 160 gig drive, but considering getting an HD set and want to do it ONCE. While the previous relationship between Tivo and DirecTV is history, there are those of us who like the Tivo programming system and would like something as close to that as we might find without having to wait until fall for a unit that is Mpeg4 compatible. Do any of the CE manufacturers have anything coming out (SOON!) that might fit the bill?
--Dan

January 25, 2006 in DirecTiVo, DVR, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (3)

January 17, 2006

High Definition DVR

Currently have 2 Stand Alone Tivo's & I'm anxiously awaiting the series 3.  Between now and then I would really love to get an HD-DVR for my OTA HD shows.  I've search high and low and wanted to see what suggestions y'all might have. I have a Toshiba TV and the Symbio is an option - it uses the TV tuner.
--Shawn

January 17, 2006 in DVR, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (2)

January 09, 2006

HD Tuner card with RS232?

My goal: Have a HDTV QAM tuner card in my HTPC control and automatically change channels on my HD set top box. I have asked many sources, the brightest guy told me that to do this I would need a HDTV tuner card with an RS232 control.

Is this correct? Any solutions? Any products?
-- Sergie

January 9, 2006 in Home Theater PC, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (6)

November 25, 2005

Is buying a DirecTV HD Tivo worth it?

With HD getting more popular and as a family upgrading to plasma based HD TVs for the house, we want HD through DirecTV, but we dont want to lose our Tivo.  Is buying a HD Tivo worth it through DirecTV or do they have their own coming?
-- Scott

November 25, 2005 in DirecTiVo, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (9)

June 07, 2005

Need standalone HD-DVR

I just dumped my $85 a month TimeWarner HD DVR. All I really watch is HD content from network TV. Now I need a HD DVR Box with a tuner built in. Is there any others besides the LG LST-3410A? -- Cord

June 7, 2005 in TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (1)

November 17, 2004

DVR for Voom HDTV

Hello I'm looking to buy a DVR preferably PC based that records HD 1080i and 720p. Does anybody know of a company that sells the setup? I know that Tivo and Replay do not have a HD box the best they do is DVD quality.
-- Sebastian

November 17, 2004 in DVR, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (2) | TrackBack

November 07, 2004

LOST / WEST WING conflict

I have a problem -- one that's shared by anyone else who happens to be a fan of both LOST and THE WEST WING (which I'm guessing is a lot of people).

Now that LOST is clocking in at 1:01, it overlaps with WEST WING by one minute -- and hence poses a scheduling conflict.  TiVo says I have to pick one or the other, and can't record both.  Ack!

But since more and more shows are starting to impose this sort of weird scheduling, it seems to me that TiVo should simply give me the option to start a scheduled recording a minute late, or stop it a minute early.  However, currently it only offers the reverse -- I can start a recording early, or stop it late -- but that doesn't solve my problem.

(Furthermore, under "Record by Time or Channel", I can only schedule recordings at 5 minute increments -- which also doesn't solve my problem.)

Do you know if TiVO has any plans to address this?  I can't be the first person to have this issue.
- Paul

November 7, 2004 in TiVo, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (10) | TrackBack

November 03, 2004

HDTV/DVR Choice

It seems there are only three HDTV/DVR boxes right now.  One is DirecTV for $999.  I could buy a DVHS for less than that.  The other two are Dish and Comcast for $10 a month (basically).  I have Comcast cable and want to upgrade to HDTV/DVR cheaply.  Dish says it will hold 30 hours of HDTV.  Comast says it will hold 7 hours (according to my local rep in Atlanta).

Is there any reason I should not go with Dish? Will something better come out during the XMAS season such that I should wait a few months? Does Dish run a XMAS special each year (such as free installation) such that I should wait a month or two?
-- Niel

November 3, 2004 in Dish Network, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (4) | TrackBack

October 27, 2004

HDTV-enabled TiVo?

I know that the current Series 2 TiVos don't current support HDTV (although DirectTV has an HDTV-enabled version for its subscribers). Have there been any hints about if and when TiVo would launch standalone TiVo units that support over-the-air HDTV, or HDTV over cable? I'm trying to decide to upgrade from Series 1 to Series 2 to get TivoToGo features, or hold off. I'm hoping for an HDTV TiVo that would work well as the tuner for an HDTV plasma display. From my limited understanding of HDTV, it seems like such a box should not be terribly difficult from a technical perspective -- since the HDTV feed is already digital, it should be easier to save than an analog signal that has to be converted to MPEG. The only big limitation is extra hard drive space. It also seems rather obvious that TiVo will have one eventually.
-- Robert Jacobson

October 27, 2004 in series 2, TiVo, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Answers (4) | TrackBack