SatelliteGuys First Look: DIRECTV Scoreguide

[directdb]

I AGREE. I wish I could DISABLE interactive features entirely too.

 

[Jimbo]

I am not happy at all with this new "feature".

I regularly schedule autotunes to change channels to record sports programs to my non-direcTV DVR.

If the receiver is left on a channel with scoreguide (which direcTV calls "interactive features"), or autotunes to a channel with scoreguide, then any scheduled autotunes after that will NOT work.

And since most ALL of the channels I am setting up to autotune are sports channels, they ALL have this new "scoreguide" feature. Thus, autotune just ain't working for me most of the time anymore!

I was told to hit EXIT on my remote to exit out of the interactive features! Well, that does NOT work too well if the reason I scheduled autotunes is because I was NOT there to turn the channel myself!

I have a D12 receiver, although direcTV tells me all of their receivers will NOT autotune off a channel which has interactive features!

I wish I could DISABLE interactive features entirely! Not being able to autotune is a big problem for me. Does dish network have this issue?

I love this feature and fortunately I don't have ANY of the issues you guys have mentioned ...

It would be nice to be able to turn the feature on and off and it could be added at a later time.

I don't think DISH Network has anything like this, therefore, NO they don't have these issues.

 

[efbrune]

Jimbo;

I guess you do not use your H20-100 on the sports channels, if you did you would experience all of these issues with the Sportsguide.

 

[a_hockeynut]

So in the first post, it says this:

DIRECTV customers with advanced receivers will activate ScoreGuide

Can someone tell me a direcTV receiver that is NOT advanced? I tried to quiz customer support, and they suggested a receiver that is NOT advanced also would NOT support autotune. Is that correct? Reason I ask is I have a couple old direcTV receivers I would consider activating if I knew they would NOT have scoreguide but WOULD still autotune.

 

[DodgerKing]

Jimbo;

I guess you do not use your H20-100 on the sports channels, if you did you would experience all of these issues with the Sportsguide.

I mostly watch sports and do not have any of the issues mentioned. I use an HR20; I don't know if the issue is only with the non-DRVs

 

[DodgerKing]

So in the first post, it says this:

DIRECTV customers with advanced receivers will activate ScoreGuide

Can someone tell me a direcTV receiver that is NOT advanced? I tried to quiz customer support, and they suggested a receiver that is NOT advanced also would NOT support autotune. Is that correct? Reason I ask is I have a couple old direcTV receivers I would consider activating if I knew they would NOT have scoreguide but WOULD still autotune.

My Hughes boxes and my TiVO do not have the score guide feature, but they do have autotune.

 

[efbrune]

I mostly watch sports and do not have any of the issues mentioned. I use an HR20; I don't know if the issue is only with the non-DRVs

See post #3 for the D* products affected.

D* reports they are working to resolve these problems with the Sportsguide. I do not believe that Directv will do anything to resolve these issues with the Sportsguide.

 

[a_hockeynut]

See post #3 for the D* products affected.

D* reports they are working to resolve these problems with the Sportsguide. I do not believe that Directv will do anything to resolve these issues with the Sportsguide.

When I spoke with direcTV, I couldn't even get them to admit there is a problem! She just said it is working like it is supposed to!

Sounds like if I activate this old hughes box I have I might have autotune working for sports channels since it has no sportsguide. But, I do not want to get socked with adding to my commitment either, so not sure what to do... hope they fix it I guess!

 

[morefaves]

I have a D10 and D11 receiver. I am having teh not able to auto-tune from thses channels problem, AND No Caller ID display on these channels problem. I wish there was a way to turn this onm and off, as I like the feature, but only if I'm there watching it.

 

[Ramy]

I like the Scoreguide. It makes finding scores a WHOLE lot faster.

 

[cybok0]

I ignore it.

 

[Jimbo]

Jimbo;

I guess you do not use your H20-100 on the sports channels, if you did you would experience all of these issues with the Sportsguide.

Generally, No, I don't use my H20 for sports, it's in the bedroom and normally it's Leno and thats about it.
Then it's night time .

 

[Paul Wozniak]

I like the Scoreguide. It makes finding scores a WHOLE lot faster.

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