Who got the technology first?
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I just want to know who's going to be first to let me watch something off my DVR, in HD, on my Android tablet.
Who will be first to let me see an integrated schedule of recordings and allow me to assign them to specific receivers to avoid conflict?
All of this stuff is networked now. There's no real good reason why either of these features shouldn't be available now.
Who will be first to let me see an integrated schedule of recordings and allow me to assign them to specific receivers to avoid conflict?
All of this stuff is networked now. There's no real good reason why either of these features shouldn't be available now.
I just want to know who's going to be first to let me watch something off my DVR, in HD, on my Android tablet.
Who will be first to let me see an integrated schedule of recordings and allow me to assign them to specific receivers to avoid conflict?
All of this stuff is networked now. There's no real good reason why either of these features shouldn't be available now.
I thought,techically,both DTV & Dish allowed you to do this already. Dish,with both sling adapter & sling built into their dvr's(both ViP922 & Hopper with built in sling) allows you to do that with the Dish Everywhere(or is it Anywhere?) App,AND DTV also allows you to do that too on their android app.
Nope.. just saying they beat Hopper out by 4-5 months? but the HR34 was released well before it should have been.. and Hopper had features (like Pandora) before they finally got added to HR34... and here we are 1.5 years later and (IMO) DTV seems to have acknowledged that the HR34 isn't flagship quality, hence the introduction of the HR44, which might have a CPU up to the task.. my HR34 is an exercise in sluggish.
Nope.. just saying they beat Hopper out by 4-5 months? but the HR34 was released well before it should have been.. and Hopper had features (like Pandora) before they finally got added to HR34... and here we are 1.5 years later and (IMO) DTV seems to have acknowledged that the HR34 isn't flagship quality, hence the introduction of the HR44, which might have a CPU up to the task.. my HR34 is an exercise in sluggish.
What have you done to alleviate the slowness?
First off, let's not assume that any random Android tablet is "HD". Most are decidedly different than HDTVs in their aspect ratio and resolution.
A Slingbox Pro (or DISH's Sling solutions) can, up to the capacity of your broadband connection, encode HD content in real time. Monsoon boxes may be able to provide similar results.
Just trying to make sure that the perspectives are as accurate as possible. A thread like this shouldn't be about what color glasses you wear.
No, I meant what have you done. It doesn't mean that whatever may have been done worked. Are you moving on to semantics now?
exactly what should a CUSTOMER do to alleviate the slowness in a DTV product ?!?! Its *my* responsibility ??!? Last I checked they haven't open sourced the firmware so I could go in and clean it up
I have seen several suggested magic combinations of the colored buttons to press.. none did me any good. And I've attempted to disable the few items in the settings that they give me control over that might be akin to gee-whiz features that I was very willing to trade to get this 286-class processor to try to run at Win95 speeds
A dvr is a computer. Would you go to HP or Dell and complain because your computer isn't as fast as it used to be? I wouldn't. I use Glary and other similar tools to help keep my computer running as best as I can. It's the same with a dvr, just a different methodology. Clearing the nvram or keeping the % of stored recordings down are ways of keeping it running better.
I've got an HR22 that USE to be slow as crap and I cleared the nvram and have about 96% free on it now. It's just as fast as my HR24's now
BS... if it was a computer. I could dump the sluggish OS they included and throw linux on it
this is not a device an end-user should have to "tweak" to make it work with acceptable responsiveness. A very small minority of customers knowing some tricks (which didn't make any noticeable difference for me) does not absolve DTV from the reality that the HR34 is no shinging example of UI responsiveness.
As for HD usage % Its a **DVR** not just a RCVR.. it should be designed to operate efficiently in the presence of stored material. That's, well, sort of it's purpose
It's not like it's postprocessing the video. My HR34 can be sluggish even when its not recording anything. And when it is.. then it's even worse The other night it wouldn't even turn on and output HDMI.. had to wait until a recording finished and do a reset.
BS huh? So you are saying a dvr isn't a computer? That's BS! BTW, I never said the HR34 worked to any specific level of efficiency. I merely offered a couple of examples of how you might be able to make it work better. If that didn't work for you I'm sorry I couldn't help you.
The one real advantage DISh had over D* was their dual tuner receivers. One receiver for two tvs. That was with full functions. Dish kinda wrecked it when they at first required a land based phone connection to avoid an additional $5 monthly fee. A fee which on my installs( I was a tech) was a huge bone of contention.
Anyway, the idea of one receiver for two tv's was appealing to many.
In this case, the HR34 already has *nix on it. If you know about *nix, you know there aren't a whole lot of "optimizing" solutions available for it.BS... if it was a computer. I could dump the sluggish OS they included and throw linux on it
That's something that they've chosen to live with given the feature set that has been implemented. DIRECTV obviously believes it is a good balance and they are convinced they've done everything they can given the SoC that they are using.
That it doesn't satisfy some is unfortunate, but there are other options (i.e. a herd of HR24s).
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