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    AT&T To Buy DIRECTV for $67 Billion

    with this combo, AT&T could potentially spin off Uverse and all their old copper plant. Why spend billions upon billions upgrading old copper when they've got wireless and satellite for everything nationwide? It's exactly what Ergen wants to transform Dish into.
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    What is DIRECTV's new GENIE?

    am i missing something? both articles on the main pages are actually different... scott covered the renaming of the HR34 and the other site is covering the "Genie Recommends" feature. some more details from solidsignal...
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    What is DIRECTV's new GENIE?

    so it sounds like.... Genie = HR34 Genie Recommends = software feature of the renamed HR34
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    Does DirecTV have an "answer" to the Hopper?

    correct. I was just trying to get it across to dspcap that i was actually recording more channels than there are physical tuners via timers. PTAT "quasi" turns one physical tuner into essentially 4. PTAT automatically saved it to my recordings without me doing anything manual. All I had to do...
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    Does DirecTV have an "answer" to the Hopper?

    well i tested it tonite. just to see. that's not how it works now. i was able to record two PTAT shows AND two more cable shows. That means i used 4 tuners on a 3 tuner hopper. for some reason it shows skipped when you set the timer, but it still records and saves it over to my DVR...
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    Does DirecTV have an "answer" to the Hopper?

    oh i see what you're saying now. You can set a timer, but it shows skipped. So, i guess they really didn't have it ready at launch as i thought. Must have misread another post. Hopefully it shows up soon after as they originally planned. Have two hoppers, but still haven't tested every...