Comments on: TIVO and DirecTV making an HD DVR. Yeah, you heard me right … http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080905/tivo-and-directv-making-an-hd-dvr-yeah-you-heard-me-right-%e2%80%a6/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:35:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: JEmlay http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080905/tivo-and-directv-making-an-hd-dvr-yeah-you-heard-me-right-%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-348700 JEmlay Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:15:08 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=16706#comment-348700 "The one thing stopping me from taking the HD leap, quite frankly, is that inability to record HD programming on a DVR." What idiot wrote this? HD DVRs have been around for YEARS. Direct TV already has an HD DVR. They are simply going back to Tivo. As for DRM they ALREADY have limitations. PPV movies are only good for X amount of says. 72 hours I believe and it's soon going to be lowered to 24 hours. Which is INSANE. You can rent movies for longer then that!!! Anyway, Apple TV is the same way (iTunes). “The one thing stopping me from taking the HD leap, quite frankly, is that inability to record HD programming on a DVR.”

What idiot wrote this? HD DVRs have been around for YEARS. Direct TV already has an HD DVR. They are simply going back to Tivo.

As for DRM they ALREADY have limitations. PPV movies are only good for X amount of says. 72 hours I believe and it’s soon going to be lowered to 24 hours. Which is INSANE. You can rent movies for longer then that!!! Anyway, Apple TV is the same way (iTunes).

]]> By: Electronic Gadgets http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080905/tivo-and-directv-making-an-hd-dvr-yeah-you-heard-me-right-%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-348558 Electronic Gadgets Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:58:12 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=16706#comment-348558 I had one of the older DTV/Tivo combinations which worked great so this should be a great unit also. I had one of the older DTV/Tivo combinations which worked great so this should be a great unit also.

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