Automatic CE Upgrade

[SAVERITELIQ]

Last Sunday, per this message board, I called Directv, and at the prompt said: Activate Directv On Demand. The prompt then said: Activate Directv On Demand? I then said: Yes. After a few bleeps/and/shrills, the prompt said I was being transferred to customer service. Not wanting to speak to someone, I hung up. I also knew that I had missed Saturday night's download, so I thought that I'd would need to wait till this Friday or Saturday night.
Yesterday, lo and behold, I noticed the blue round light on the front of my HR21-700 was lit. I always keep it off. The only time it goes on is if something is upgraded. When I checked, I found that I am now operating with firmware # 0x01fE.
I then checked my system, and all is well. I've now got the 1000 series channels and all that goes with it. I've already downloaded a 2 hour movie and it worked perfectly.
Thanks for all the helpful information on this site.

Equipment: HR21-700; 1tb external HD; hitachi 60vx915 HD TV; cat6 ethernet cable; 1gbps connections.

 

[rad]

It wasn't an automatic CE upgrade, it's just that DirecTV felt that the 1FE release of software was stable enough to roll out to the regular population.

 

[Jimbo]

What ???? No auto CE upgrade ??? Come on, that would be awesome !!!!

Hardly, if that were to happen, then D* would be determining WHO got them and who didn't ..... That would be disasteroius.

Beside you already get the AutoCEupgrades when it come out as a NR ...

Jimbo