Question about more than 8 tuners

[jgags6]

I just purchased a new house and I had our local home theater/Dish/Direct installer over to give me some quotes on things. I am going to have them install Direct. My ideal system is 4 receivers 3 being DVRs. I would like to get the Hr-34, and then two more DVRs, and a HD receiver. When I ran this by the installer he said that with Direct you could only have 8 tuners otherwise you have to purchase a switch that is "very expensive" he said around $300. My question is should I spend the extra money (there are only two of us in the house and we record a lot)? Or should I just get 3 normal HD DVRs instead of adding the 34?

 

[lparsons21]

Depending on your account, you might get Direct to do that move for you at no cost or nearly so. It would include everything needed, including that expensive switch.

It is worth checking into.

 

[Liquidforce88]

Even if you order it from Directv you are looking at about $500 for what you want. For just 3 HR24's you would probably pay $400 extra. I don't think Directv makes you pay for the switch.

 

[41963]

I am not sure whether it is in your market area or not, but there is another option that may be worth looking into. Take a look at the HMC Server(HR-34) in combination with the c-31 clients. These clients are very small set top boxs, only slightly larger that the broad-band deca's and will work as a fully functional hd/dvr. The other great thing about them is that they are one of the only set top box's on the market that are both 1080p and 3d compatible. They also do not consume a tuner. If i recall from the small training course i went to that the HR-34 is capable of handling up to 8 of the c-31 clients. take a look, they are very cool.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

and if you have a ota antenna get a AM21 and hook it to the HR-34 (you may be able to get WGN OTA and WCIU OTA to get all the games)

 

[texasbrit]

I am not sure whether it is in your market area or not, but there is another option that may be worth looking into. Take a look at the HMC Server(HR-34) in combination with the c-31 clients. These clients are very small set top boxs, only slightly larger that the broad-band deca's and will work as a fully functional hd/dvr. The other great thing about them is that they are one of the only set top box's on the market that are both 1080p and 3d compatible. They also do not consume a tuner. If i recall from the small training course i went to that the HR-34 is capable of handling up to 8 of the c-31 clients. take a look, they are very cool.

The C31 is not available yet, and there's no official info available yet (although it's rumored we might see something next week). There are very strong rumors that the C31 might become available in just a few areas in the next few weeks but nothing is certain. And you will be limited to three RVU clients (either the C31, or a Samsung TV with built-in RVU) on an HR34.

An RVU client isn't really a fully-functional DVR, but it comes close. What it does is allow you to take control of one of the tuners in the HR34, to watch/record programming, and to playback anything from the HR34's recording list. RVU-enabled Samsung TVs have been available for a while (2011 models) and it's expected that the 2012 models will have this capability "soon".

 

[jgags6]

The C31 looks like an interesting option (if it ever comes out). Right now it looks like I am leaning towards 2 HDDVRs and 2 HD receivers (I would love to have 3 DVRs but I have a LED mounted above the fireplace with not components showing and I was planning on mounting the Direct HD receiver behind the tv. Does anyone know of a way to mount the HDDVR... Or for that matter a bluray player behind the tv?

 

[texasbrit]

There's a "first look" at the C31 just appeared on the "other" forum (dbstalk). See http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=208146