Team Summit: General Assembly Notes

**drdroo** · 05-16-2008 01:36 PM

I guess I'm kind of disappointed here that the 722 customers will probably need a new box in order to have Sling built in or support two-way remotes.

You'd think the hardware platform wouldn't be that much different and we could have a software upgrade to enable some of this stuff.

Who knows, maybe they will offer a software upgrade but I think history suggests I'll be waiting for my 18 month to end so I can upgrade again.

**dfergie** · 05-16-2008 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by brianlas

FYI, the CLICK HERE link in Post #1, above, is incorrect. It goes to satellieguys,
not satelliteguys.

Fixed

**jpdubose** · 05-16-2008 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by drdroo

I guess I'm kind of disappointed here that the 722 customers will probably need a new box in order to have Sling built in or support two-way remotes.

You'd think the hardware platform wouldn't be that much different and we could have a software upgrade to enable some of this stuff.

Who knows, maybe they will offer a software upgrade but I think history suggests I'll be waiting for my 18 month to end so I can upgrade again.

+1

**jacmyoung** · 05-16-2008 01:58 PM

You know I kept wondering when anyone is going to come out with an HDDVR with two independent HD HDMI outputs. This can easily get around the DRM issue, and with today's HDMI cable range, especially if a booster is built in the receiver, the installer can easily run long HDMI's to have one HDDVR do two separate HD sets.

A killer application if you ask me.

**JEFFinINDY** · 05-16-2008 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by digiblur

I can answer that right now... due to DRM you won't see an ATSC output.

The 722s sounds really cool. I was dogging the add on tuner deal but the ability to view two separate OTA signals is very cool.

Will this also let you record two OTA at the same time?

Scott thanks for the recap!

**drdroo** · 05-16-2008 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by jacmyoung

You know I kept wondering when anyone is going to come out with an HDDVR with two independent HD HDMI outputs. This can easily get around the DRM issue, and with today's HDMI cable range, especially if a booster is built in the receiver, the installer can easily run long HDMI's to have one HDDVR do two separate HD sets.

A killer application if you ask me.

The problem is how big of a pain in the *** the customer can be if such a thing isn't marketed carefully. Heck, even if it is marketed carefully then I'm sure the customer would still find some way to make the installer's life hell.

The ideal solution here would be something that runs over coax, but is an encrypted digital stream that you have a 'sidecar' in the other room that decodes everything and talks via Coax back to the main receiver. I'm surprised they can't do this and haven't. It would fulfill everyones interests and they could upgrade the firmware in both boxes if someone managed to 'break' the method.

Costly? Sure, but I think a 2nd full box would be more expensive.

**dewzan** · 05-16-2008 02:09 PM

any dates on when DTV PAL , DTV PAL DVR will hit stores? will they even be availible in stores ? all we is june for dtv pal and july/august for dtv pal dvr. specifics would be nice.

**stuart628** · 05-16-2008 02:30 PM

oh wow, I want to get my hands on the 722s!!! claude?

**Yes616** · 05-16-2008 02:35 PM

And not a single word about Voom.

**AKGolf** · 05-16-2008 02:39 PM

Western Arc (110 / 119 / 129), this doesn't look promising for Alaska and Hawaii.

I was hoping after the Eastern Arc, they would work on a Western Arc for the folks out west!