A friend recently complained to me that his HR22 didn’t have slow motion replay. As an avid sports fan, he was annoyed that he couldn’t review key plays in slo-mo.
I was pretty surprised. It’s not a feature I’ve ever used personally, but I was sure that no current DVR would omit such a key feature, and one as easy to implement, as slow motion.
Turns out, of course, it is there. It’s just a little hidden.
To enable slow motion on the HR2X series of DirecTV HD DVRs, you press and HOLD the play button. That’s it. One speed only, but it works just fine.
If you’re looking for more hints about hidden features on your HR2X, you might want to review our DirecTV HD DVR Tips and Tricks page.
5 replies on “Slo-mo on a DirecTV HD DVR”
I find the slow motion function of the HR2X almost useless. The reason is that you cannot accurately define the start time of the slow motion. With TIVO, as soon as you push the slow motion button, slow motion begins. With the HR2X, when you find the place you want to initiate slow motion, and you press and hold the play button, the program keeps playing at regular speed until you have held the button in for awhile. By that time, the place where you wanted to start slow motion has already passed. If you try to anticipate the delay between the time you push and hold the play button and the time you think the slow motion will begin, it never seems to be the right place, and turns out to be too much trouble to keep trying.
Yeah – that makes good sense. If you have to play before you can go slow, you can’t get an accurate starting point.
TiVo definitely has these types of features down cold. Maybe they have a patent on this somehow that limits DirecTV in enabling similar functionality.
The other disadvantage of the HR2X is that there is no function to freeze the motion and then step through frame-by-frame like there is in TIVO.
Dish has a great slow-mo with multiple speeds, We switched to Direct TV and are very disappointed.
I too switched from Tivo (bummer) to DirecTV HD so I have a new remote. The Tivo remote runs circles around DirectV. I hate the slow motion and was hoping to find a hack here to improve it. There are some things that Directv could teach Tivo.
One more bad thing since I switched is only getting 50 season passes. With shows going on hiatus I would want to have unlimited or a least double season passes.