No, it doesn't. The Hughes box is sort of a stepchild, because TiVo does not use its Series 2 TiVo software in it, and most of the TiVo updates do not apply to DirecTV boxes at all. Since DirecTV appears to be abandoning TiVo, I think you are going to have be a regular TiVo subscriber to get all you want, because D* boxes will never have the latest cool TiVo stuff.