I am told it a satellite receiver, but like a HR54 (or 20) can do VOD via IPTV.
I am also told no receiver with 4K output is coming in 2017. (Maybe that is what the lady from DIRECTV was meaning to tell me in Las Vegas when I met with DIRECTV.)
I am only passing along with what I am told. I don't have a horse in the game.
Of course it's a satellite receiver, it has an input for a satellite dish, and has a SWM count on it. And of course it can do VOD over IP just like every other DirecTV receiver today.
Everyone in this thread seems to be getting way, way, way ahead of themselves, and the various people feeding Scott his info obviously have only part of the story.
It's clear that this is simply a Genie without a TV output and a built in wireless access point. If it was anything other than that, the documentation that has been leaked would have said so. They aren't going to make a huge leap all at once, this is clearly a step along a path they've been talking about. A headless gateway combined with the number of TVs with RVU built in is an obvious choice.
And of course this thing is going to be used for both residential and commercial. To make a DVR for exclusively accounts that aren't allowed a DVR would be dumb, and there is a clear need for this type of device in residential installs anyway.