said by dbmaven:How much were the HR10-250's (DirecTiVOs) when they came out?
Something like $1000.00 ?
Eventually they came down - but they were not cheap.
For the vocal minority of people who were/are TiVO fanatics, this is certainly welcome news.
Like someone else mentioned, I've never had reboot/missed recording or any other issues with my HR2x's. And with the additional features DirecTV has been adding/testing/working on, right now I have no interest in switching. A year is a very long time - so we'll really have to wait and see what the new TiVO looks like and how it performs against what DirecTV has at that time.
From a "why are they doing this" perspective - that's the interesting question. It's possible that financially it will make more sense for them to keep their own branded DVRs as a "base" line, and sell the TiVO enabled units as an 'upscale' alternative. If so, it's possible that development on the HR2x units will be scaled back to just fixes and stability, with no new features. With what I've seen in the pipeline, that's a stretch - but who knows.
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