My HSP still won't let techs have either one of them
Yea mine wont allow the 34 or 44 to an HSP account, however I downgraded my residential account to entertainment and im still a year into the contract and Im going to keep it there till we have them in the warehouse.
The HR44 has the wireless CCK built in. It also uses the new remotes that are RF. I have heard that there will be a C41W wireless client for use on locations that can not get a wire to in the future.
A little birdie told me that the C41W will be hitting "markets" in January of 2014, I have no idea if thats national or testing however.
One problem may be though that not everybody is eligible for a free upgrade due to credit problems or whatever. In that case,if they can afford it,ordering from Solid Signal or eBay(which usually IS cheaper) maybe the only viable option they have.
I play to call in a service call when the 44s are in stock because i think my 34 may be about to die..... ::whisteles:: HMC=HMC lol
Really ?
Even if you buy it yourself ?
The HR44 is considered a Genie or HMC, as is the 34. Just as all HR2X are referred to as a "dvr". You are only allowed one HMC per account. Back when only allowing one DVR per account was the standard far predates either of my "tours of duty" with DirecTV, but we all know you can have multiple dvrs on one account now. Im sure you will eventually be allowed to have more than one, but only time will tell.
Another reason for only allowing one currently is because of the need for a swm16 when having two. The swm16 is a very expensive piece of hardware that directv needs to consume, and running on on every job that people wanted multiple genies would cost the company more than what they would recoup in a short amount of time through monthly payments. Its all about money. Not to mention those few people that would for some reason want two genies, then receivers instead of clients because they for whatever need 5 available tuners on each box at all times. I realize these people are few and far between, but I had a install on saturday that was built for a HMC and 2 clients, and it turned into 7 tvs and 0 clients after they found out that the clients took one of the 5 tuners away. If this customer wanted two genies and all dvrs then we need a swm32. I dont think directv wants those installed residentially, thats a 700$ switch. The situations may be extreme and few and far between, but they do happen.