We heard lots of buzz surrounding the Hopper whole home DVR service from Dish since CES, but DirecTV doesn’t want to be left out of the party. While pricing and availability is still being worked out, it’s nice to see some pretty significant benefits to the system over traditional and older DirecTV systems. Read on for Ben’s opinions of his […]
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If you love NFL football and have an extra $300 lying around, then Sony has an app for you. The NFL Sunday Ticket service provides access to just about every out-of-market NFL game and is usually an exclusive to DirecTV’s satellite subscription service. NFL fans on DirecTV are all set, but for everyone else, there is the PlayStation 3 NFL […]
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I don’t know why, but I honestly was not expecting this to happen so soon. Premium content providers like HBO, Starz, and Showtime are requiring DirecTV to enable HDCP on their HD signals. This seems to have already taken place for HBO and DirecTV states that they will continue rolling this out for the rest of their premium channels. […]
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It wasn’t that long ago that the big news surrounding DirecTV’s HD DVRs was the deployment of an updated HD UI. Now, DirecTV is adding features to take their DVRs beyond simply watching and recording TV. Internet connected DirecTV HD DVRs can now be used to stream Pandora Internet Radio. Pandora is integrated into the device’s “Extras” menu and provides […]
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TruTV HD, the reality TV focused spawn of the ill-fated Court TV, signed a deal last year that split the NCAA Championship Tournament with CBS. As a part of the deal, TruTV HD gets to air the games for the first couple of rounds, with coverage switching back to CBS once the action hits the Elite 8 round. As a […]
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Once upon time there was a cable channel called TechTV devoted to geeks like me, and my favorite show on that ill-fated channel was The ScreenSavers. It was during an episode of The ScreenSavers that I first head of WeaKnees, a company devoted to selling upgrade kits for and upgraded versions of DVRs such as the ReplayTV and TiVo. It’s been […]
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DirecTV has been a bit slow to get on board with HD, at least in the user interface of their set top boxes. The finally started pushing the new HD UI that they had been promising for years to beta testers a few months ago. Evidently they started rolling out it for real in November, but someone at DirecTV HQ […]
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It’s been a long time since DirecTV announced that they were working with Cisco and Samsung on the RVU multi-room viewing DVR system. It may have taken two years, but DirecTV’s first RVU capable DVR, the HR34, looks likely to launch on December 8. The HR34 is set to be a beast with 5 tuners and 1TB of storage. The […]
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DirecTV did a pretty good job of picking up subscribers in Q3. If their Q4 doesn’t go as well, they won’t have AT&T to blame. AT&T gets a lot of attention for their fiber optic U-Verse television service, but U-Verse has had a fairly limited roll-out at this point. Where AT&T lacks U-Verse to bundle in with their telephony and data services, […]
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In early August DirecTV announced that they had added only 26,000 US subscribers in Q2, their lowest number of new subscribers ever. This announcement came on the heels of falling subscriber numbers for several major cable companies, which combined to give rise to some breathless stories about the growing threat of cord cutters and web video to subscription television services. Fast forward […]
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