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Had a day off from work today which worked out perfectly as my Hr20 came in today, I tell you I felt like joey porter running back a touchdown, and that ups man was my bill cowher I could have kissed him when he showed up! I was that excited.

Oh and I also had my AT9 install which went smooth, and I am hitting about 96-97 on signal (during a heavy rain it went down to about 89 on the lowest transponder!) anyways, to the DVR....A little worried at first as it took a little longer then I expected starting up (be patient! I wasnt) I got a little nervous, and thought i had done something wrong when my Resoloution lights keep turning on and off starting with 480 and working its way to 1080. But it got up and running and activated, which I didnt even try the locals because nothing would come in without the software upgrade, so I flipped ot my HD channels, which in my opinion look better on the HR20 then the HR10. Now they are not night and day different but they are better.

ANyways, suddenly my box turned off, and again Panic mode set in, until a screen popped up a minute later saying downloading software (I thought this would warn me before turning off.). Anyways The software downloaded, and a problem I had before with the old software where my Resoloution wouldnt change to 1080 no matter what, I thought it was because I had a HDMI to DVI cable hooked up to my sony kp46wt500, but really it was just the software they loaded onto the machine causing the problem, with the new software during setup 1080i took right away!

Alot of you are probably saying get on with it James (my real name) we want to know what you think coming from a HDTIVO-welllll I would say this, right now if your locals arent up in HD, and neither is a rsn, and you get your locals over the air, I would stay with tivo.

Okay let me explain before you jump to conclusions! I love this box, the picture is crisper, and I no longer have to fight with my VHF3 OTA chanell, I get my RSN's in HD, and I know in a year when they start firing those HD channels up all I have to do is sit back and relax.

The thing that made the jump for me easy is I have a r15 that I have grown to love as I found my way around it. I do enjoy Directvs Programming. Also My fear of this box was that it was a unstable piece of poo, but in reality there are bugs (we are only on the first REAL software released) but its things that will not stop the world from spinning.

My Locals in HD look almost exactly like OTA. I have one small Mpeg4 problem, but its with my ABC and I am currently in the middle of talking with them to try and get it fixed. Another Area of concern was the Wife approval factor, and it passed with flying colors, she thinks the pictures alot nicer with this, and again we are both familiar with the R15 so she grabbed the remote and went right to survivor, which brings up a nice point, GOod job Directv on the remapping of the channels, I know they are working on this, and in my area if you hit channel 19, it goes right to my HD Local.

If you are on the fence abou this box, I would upgrade to it, again its a great box....remember this is teh wave of the future, so you will be here one day. And also like I said before, if you really love your tivo, are not interested in RSNs in HD or dont have locals in HD up yet, and will upgrade when NEw hd channels come out, stick with your tivo, you will gain nothing but maybe a better picture (marginally better, but better) and maybe a missed recording or two (again still new box).

(note by Scott... I added paragraphs for easier reading... good review!)