Recent content by steecoe

Lots of info! My install is tomorrow... I will see if I can post some pictures of how it turned out after they leave.

Excellent info guys, thanks! I am a do it myselfer with a basement reminiscent of your favorite episode of hoarders (well maybe not THAT bad lol) & I just need to make the install as easy as possible for the poor soul that hasta do my install.. So if I am getting the picture correct...

This was very helpful, thanks!!

Can this be a self install? Is there a physical cable or wire that needs to be ran fresh from the road? How does the connection get to me inside the house? I am thinking of ditching xfinity wifi & bundling AT&T fiber with my Directv. Will an installer need access to my house? Just the outside?

The last few months DTV has been looking like to me they have lowered the bitrate. Picture quality is the one thing that has kept me with DTV for 20 years but it is getting rather disappointing lately...

I have been running whole home thru Ethernet since the beta testing days.I have an HR44 & a bunch of DVRs & it works fine.

Yeah I have plenty of options stream through the PS3 or the Blu Ray player or the TV just about everything has that ability - which is why it's disappointing that DTV would drop it from their units. There is something to be said about the convenience factor of having it in the DTV receiver I can...

yeah well, I miss it. I used it all the time to stream music from my computer.

Any idea why & if it will be back?

The other DVRs still have the media share & the whole home DVRs all see each other on the network.....Media share is missing still on the HR44...

My HR44 is missing the music video & photo streaming. I have done countless resets and it's not coming back....Any ideas on how to 'force' it back?

that sux

Glad to finally see Sundance in HD

I am not sure, I was wondering if that was a change point for this new firmware, but I didn't see any other discussion of the issue one way or another. I haven't tried it, it was never needed before & the HR44 is the only one doing it, none of the other dvrs (HR20, hr21 & hr23) are having this...

Yeah I use it to auto record stuff that I want to see no matter what channel its on. One of them being Van Halen, it will record any program on any channel that has anything to do with Van Halen. Where the new software is going wrong is that it's recording anything with the word van instead of...