The only problem with replacing it of course is that replacing the unit means the loss of many hours of saved programming mostly movies in my case that and the cost if they play hardball... I have been with directs since they started serving eastern states... I lived out of the eastern fringe and so was a beta tester for the edge of the footprint... More than 20 years ago now I think... And general they have been fair with updating my hardware.... It was a rough patch when they dropped TiVo for a while but I got used to their software eventually...
But for me the fix should be in software for us with the 34/700 but I had a chat with someone reading the tech support script and they said that the 34/700 has to use the same software as the newer unit and it can't have a version of its own... This sounds like hogwash to me
So roll on the internet broadband provided TV I have just ordered the new $200 Apple TV and it will be here on Monday so with Netflix and perhaps a few more directly paid for feeds I can ditch the directv and its $183.44 a month cost... I can afford quite a few bespoke subscriptions to individual services for that and if I have to spend a few hundred for an over the air antenna for my local network TV (if I am lucky TV stations will put it all on the Internet and I won't have to get an antenna as with the network transmitters over 70 miles away it will have to be an expensive one...
After reading all the replies in this thread I think I will be cutting directv back to the minimum service to get those local tv stations and a few documentary channels and buy everything else a la cart either through the new Apple TV or via the Internet with thinks like my Amazon prime..it's available through my blueray player (though oddly not on the Apple TV). Once I can get local tv via the Internet then I will likely pull the plug on directv
Unless they fix the software on this 34/700
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