Upgrade or Repair - Your Opinion is Wanted!

[navychop]

Way back, way way way back, back when rocks were soft, I used to have my 301s send a signal to start my VCR. I forget what that was called. I had to hang a pillow case off fan blades to reflect the signal, since the far wall was too far.

Is that feature even still around?

At the time, it was the cat's meow!

 

[Claude Greiner]

Unlikely anyone (except Claude) is going to tell you not to upgrade. All depends on if you want to pay the added monthly cost. Oh, and don't even bother if you don't go with Hopper with Sling. Hoppers can be fitted with an optional OTA dongle.

Upgrade to Directv

 

[KAB]

Upgrade to Directv

And "wish" he didn't have a Genie?

 

[bobvick]

And "wish" he didn't have a Genie?

The Genie would make him "wish" he had a Hopper

 

[pattykay]

Way back, way way way back, back when rocks were soft, I used to have my 301s send a signal to start my VCR. I forget what that was called. I had to hang a pillow case off fan blades to reflect the signal, since the far wall was too far.

Is that feature even still around?

At the time, it was the cat's meow!

My 501 also has that feature. Of course, it won't be useful very much longer. I no longer even have a working VCR in the same room as the 501, so for me that feature has already stopped working, not that I used it very much even when the VCR still worked.

 

[navychop]

I used it regularly. DVRs are better, much better.

 

[pattykay]

My 501 also has that feature. Of course, it won't be useful very much longer. I no longer even have a working VCR in the same room as the 501, so for me that feature has already stopped working, not that I used it very much even when the VCR still worked.

I used it regularly. DVRs are better, much better.

Well, I will rephrase. I also used it regularly when I still had 301's, before I got the 501. For what it's worth, the ViP211 also has the IR blast VCR control feature.