If you own the machine I do not see how they have a right to download their crap programs onto it without your approval, or monitor what you are watching.
DIRECTV: Fix Your HD DVR!
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You use to be able to turn the monitoring feature off thru the web site.
You know they keep stats on this stuff because they have a "Whats Hot " channel, showing what people are watching, also, probably has something to do with the Neilson ratings as well.
Jimbo
I don't know why, vurb... why don"t you ask TiVo?
Oh, aren't you talking about TiVo? I thought you were, seeing as they "push" you those Showcases and take annonymous viewing statistics from you every night as they do their "housekeeping". How else can they report the "most TiVo'd moments" and get advertisers to pay for pushing commercials to your DVR.
If you complain about D* doing it, and are silent over TiVo doing the same thing, don't wonder why people think of you as a hypocrite and a serial D* basher.
You can block it on the Hr10-250 Tivo, nothing gets downloaded that I do not want. There are also no statistics uploaded without a phone line. My unit is hacked and hasnt seen a phone line in over a year. The discussion was about the HR20-700 which is not a Tivo.
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You can block it on the Hr10-250 Tivo, nothing gets downloaded that I do not want. There are also no statistics uploaded without a phone line. My unit is hacked and hasnt seen a phone line in over a year. The discussion was about the HR20-700 which is not a Tivo.
Sooooo, who's gotten programming they did not schedule ? Who's had programming dumped onto their disk which they did not request?
I've yet to see anybody actually discover any bonus programming on their HR20. But then again, vurb, you don't have an HR20, do you? So where's your basis of information?
Even *if* D* was pushing programming onto a reserved portion of my disk, what exactly obligates anyone to watch it?
Who really gives a rat's ass, as long as the disk has sufficient space for a reasonable amount of scheduled HD content?
Why not quit the drama-queen complaints?
There is no drama here. D* themselves has announced what portions of the Hard drive would be used for. Perhaps Newshank could stop his juvenile attacks. I myself would like to know, as I asked before, is there any way to skip commercials with the HR20-700? If so how? Any method other than fast forward? And you are correct I do not have an HR20 and there is no way I will before I know all of the minuses.
Vurbano,
Basically the answer to your question is yes , sorta.
If you press the FF button, it advances :30, I've watched the meter so yes,it's 30 sec..
You can do like I do and if you know there are usually 3 minutes worth of commercials, hit the button 6 times and it will forward to the 3 minute mark, it takes about 10 sec to advance 3 minutes.
You can also use the reverse button the same way.
jimbo
Not quite, Jimbo. FF just runs quickly, multiple presses increases the rate (2x, 4x, etc). The Chapter-Fwd (>>|) advances in 30 sec increments.
Vurb, every time you post about D* it's over-reaction and drama. D* is not just pushing random content onto anybody's drive. At this time all I know about is that ST subscribers can have weekly NFL summaries pushed onto their drives. And again, there is nothing to force anyone to watch that programming.
At this point I've approached full on my HR20, all HD content. The user-accessible space is approximately 28 hrs; that's 25 1-hr program episodes, plus my son's recording of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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