Recent content by sheepishlion

D8 has not delivered any HR20's. As far as a specific date for that, they haven't announced a specific date, it is still set for mid 2006.

As far as receivers that were activated before march 1st, and then deactivated, they are still considered owned, and can be activated, and deactivated at any time, so you can wait to get your LCD HDTV.

After March 1st, you will still be able to add the protection plan. The only thing that changes with the protection plan is if you were to lease your receivers, then since the receivers are not owned by you, the protection plan only covers the dish, wiring, and remote, so it is only $5.99. If...

That is only true if you own ALL of your receivers, and your commitment is for owned equipment. Once you switch over to lease, and your commitment is on leased equipment, you are not able to return the leased or owned equipment to waive the cancellation fee. When you lease, D* owns the...

D* hasn't said if the upgrade offer later this year will be to lease, or to buy. It depends on if the upgrade offer is that you switch over to lease, and then they upgrade you, or if the upgrade offer is based on the fact that you own the receiver, and are upgrading it. It all depends on how...

You added HBO 21 days before your new billing cycle (D* bases all thier prorated charges on a 30 day cycle despite the actual number of days in the month.) As far as the $2 a month for HBO, the first month you get the prorated charges, and the full month. You only receive one $10 credit each...

I just started working for D*, and the training for lease, at least in my call center, is last week and this week. I haven't been through it yet, but hopefully I will go through sooner this week rather than later. I found out about it here, before anyone in my call center knew anything about it.

I just recently started working for D*, and was told that if someone wanted to pay for year, we could do it. We would just calculate how much you pay each month, and then times it by 12. If someone does that I generally will waive the $5 phone transaction fee, because you are paying at least...

The advance button is for skipping to the end and beginning. The R15 does not have a 10-15 or even 30 second skip feature. The DTiVo's remote could be changed to have the 30 second skip feature.

The DVR service for an R15 is different than the R10. R10's use TiVo, and R15's use DirecTV's interface. There are two different codes for the two DVR services, and since they have you down as an R10, you have the DVR service for TiVo. I would call them up and tell them they need to update...

Something happened with CTN, and so they are going to keep broadcasting PBS You until it gets resolved.

Yes you can record PPV's, as a matter of fact you can schedule to have a PPV recorded something like 14 days in advance with the R15, and you don't actually pay for it until you watch it. When I say watch, I mean anything over one second to include tuning to the channel while it is recording...

If you order direct from DirecTV, they install it for $49, and $14.95 handling and delivery. Depending on what the local installer has, you could get an R15. I ordered a DVR about a month ago, and got an R15.

I beleive the Series 1 and 2 that you refer to are both TiVo's, and not DirecTV TiVos. DirecTV TiVo/DVR's do not have the USB ports enabled, nor do they offer networking. The TiVo desktop that you refer to is not part of the DirecTV TiVo. If you want the TiVo Desktop you will need to go with...

I know you are not alone in this, I beleive that it is a problem that everyone is having. I know DirecTV is supposed to have NFL Sunday Ticket stuff record to the Showcase. They are going to fix that in a software update. Here is the list of the known bugs from DirecTV. There are other bugs...