Somebody up their loves me...DirecTV

[Imakeholesinu]

I called DirecTV about 3 months ago after my original lease with my roommate on my DVR ran out. I had to open an account with DTV last year to get a dish installed at my apartment. Everything went great and the install was awesome aside from drilling a hole into the next apartment's wall accidentally.

So I signed up for HBO, Showtime and got Encore/Starz for free for 3 months. It runs out this billing cycle so I called up to see what specials they had and was happy to find that I could keep all three for the original price I was paying.

I inquired about the HD-DVR and after some arm twisting I got them to wave the HD-DVR entirely! Monday I get it installed, move my DVR to my bedroom and the new HD-DVR goes to the living room.

SOOOOO HAPPY!!!!

[Blotus]

I thought all DVR's were capable of displaying and recording HD?

[Imakeholesinu]

I thought all DVR's were capable of displaying and recording HD?

Negative.

[Lox]

I just got an HDTV so I need to check into getting an HD-DVR soon.

[Tessian]

I thought all DVR's were capable of displaying and recording HD?

Just as you need an HD TV to watch HD channels, you need a different HD Tuner to record HD channels on a DVR.

I've had an HDTV for almost 1.5 years now and I still have yet to even order HD channels. Part of the problem is my DVR is a self built HTPC running BeyondTV, so I'd need a separate tuner to do HD. And... I'd have to pay the $5 for HD Channels a month, plus $8/month for the converter box... After all that I'm not even sure if the PC would display the channel in actual HD. Never figured it worth the hassle.

[Imakeholesinu]

I just got an HDTV so I need to check into getting an HD-DVR soon.

You got DirecTV?

[Lox]

Yup. Which means that I'll need them to replace the dish with the HD-dish as well, but apparently it's pretty easy to tell them that Dish Network is offering all of this stuff for free and DirectTV will cave.

[SineSwiper]

Bah, the Dish companies are running scared. I've seen DishTV and it totally blows.

[Lox]

The only reason I'm thinking of waiting is because my contract with DirectTV is up in June and then it might be time to move to FIOS.