Ok first off..
Jason I am not seeing your signature.
Secondly we are still part of the DirecTV CE Program, I just talked with DirecTV and the CE release notes are not copyrighted nor can they be copyrighted. If we want the CE here we need to repost the release notes from DirecTV here to SatelliteGuys.
DirecTV is upset at us for mentioning MRV on our homepage. They asked us to remove it yesterday and I declined as DBSTalk also had it mentioned publiclly this morning I searched for DirecTV MRV and found the DBSTalk First look of the MRV which was in a public directory in their website and while looking at it I also the First Look of the DECA which also was not supposed to be public.
People got to understand that the DirecTV CE Program is run by Earl, and Earl was and will always be a DBSTalk guy. Most of the shots for the CE program were from Earl himself. I could post some stuff from Earl and others at DirecTV which would have you a little surprised on how the DirecTV CE program has been run.
So because of this we are making some changes to our CE Program here at SatelliteGuys, first off the program is now public. We made it private at the request of DirecTV who asked us to uphold a number of guildelines which we upheld to the letter. In exchange DirecTV was going to do a few things for us which they never did. Got to be honest here and say that we are going on 3 years of lies by DirecTV folks, and to me its kind of sad. But again the CE is run by Earl and others who are DBSTalk guys, so I am I not too surprised, but I am disapointed.
The DECA First look and MRV first look posted by DBSTalk was not supposed to be released today but was published because I pointed ut to DirecTV that they were on a public server and were indexed by at least one search engine. DirecTV was not ready to release that info yet, but I forced their hand. It was not me ho posted the information to the DBSTalk webserver, nor was it me who got it index byt he search engines.
DirecTV knows that anything posted by DBSTalk in regards to DirecTV and the CE program will be posted here. DirecTV also knows that anything that they post privately which we catch wind of here at SatelliteGuys is also fair game.
Personally I think DirecTV needs to take the CE program private, as you might know hey just opened up the "DirecTV Insiders" forum. This would be the best place for the program to be and thrive where it is finally under official DirecTV control, not this wink wink its not under DirecTV control wink wink program that they have now. It would eliminate a lot of the issues that have been going on.
I could post a lot more on this, and have lots of these things I say in writing. I was goig to post them, but for now I will let thing be as they are.
I will also say that I am not going to stay quiet about this, I am going to make some noise in DirecTV and also at Liberty Media, anywhere they are at I will be there working to make us equal.
I was hoping DirecTV was gong to be at CES but unfortunately they are not, I even thought they would at least be at the Tivo booth showing off the new DirecTV HD Tivo, but I am hearing that is not going to happen. In fact to be honest I am now hearing the DirecTV Tivo might not even be released in 2010, in fact I am hearing a rumor that we might never see it released. I sure don't hope this is true, I really like the fact that DirecTV was giving their customers a choice in the DVR software, so I truely hope we see the Tivo software relesed.
So with that, the CE program will continue here at SatelliteGuys, and we will remain a comfortable place to discuss, enjoy and help improve the DirecTV software for all.
And there you have it.