We know that the world of networking your DirecTV equipment can be a little confusing, but the new DECA products make it much, much easier. In most cases, you won’t need to run any additional wiring to get your compatible units networked together, and even to connect your system to your broadband internet access.
Most of our customers just want their Multi Room Viewing. And we’re here to help.
DirecTV’s DECA components are the key to making this work seamlessly. But, as a new product, we’ve been getting tons of questions about what parts to get for each room/receiver in the house.
So we’ve build a configuration utility on our site to make finding the products as easy as using them. Give it a try!
DIRECTV has done an amazing job of producing components to make networking their HD DVRs very, very easy. Essentially, they’re using the same SWM cabling (pretty revolutionary stuff in and of itself) to also carry your network to your DVRs.
Includes Ethernet Cable (not shown)
The idea is that, with a DECA adapter, you are now able to attach your DVR to your other DVRs, creating a network. And, if you put a DECA adapter on your router (you’ll need the power supply for that) then you’ve just connected your DirecTV DVR network to the internet! So you can do Multi-room Viewing ($3/month DirecTV charge) and use the internet apps, on-demand, etc.
Further, the latest HD equipment from DirecTV, the HR24 and H24, have DECA built-in. You just plug in a SWM cable, and you’re on the network.
The newest DirecTV HD DVR is in stock and shipping! It’s the HR24, and it’s smaller, faster, and has built-in support for networking over SWM cables.
To begin with, this unit is smaller than previous DirecTV HD DVRs in its physical dimensions, and comes in smaller, more environmentally-friendly packaging. But the capacity is still 500 GB, and, at WeaKnees, we offer the HR24 in upgraded capacities to 2 TB – four times the size of the stock unit.
Next, reports are that this unit is faster due to new motherboard upgrades. In the short period of time we’ve been using these here, we’ve noticed. Speed is good! Even boot time has been improved.
The remote that ships with these units, the RC65RX, is two-way, meaning that the DVR can send info to the remote. That’s the first remote like that that we’ve seen from DirecTV, and it means that you can use the new UEI QuickSet to program your remote on-screen, without entering codes directly into the remote. It’s also an RF remote, and responsiveness is reported to be improved over previous versions. This remote also ships with the H24. (We’ll have the H24 up on our DirecTV receiver page soon.)
Networking really deserves its own blog post, and that will come. But this unit has DirecTV DECA adapters built-in, so if you have a DECA adapter connected to your internet router, and if you’re running a SWM system (green label) then you just need to plug one SWM cable into this unit to support both tuners AND networking – all through that one cable. It’s pretty amazing, and this will support multi-room viewing, some video-on-demand, the DirecTV App Store, and tons of other network and internet features.
Please note: This unit is NOT the DirecTV TiVo that both DirecTV and TiVo have been promising for almost two years now. We do still expect that to come, but not until the end of this year.
Just a heads up to anyone still wanting a TiVo HD or TiVo HD XL rather than a TiVo Premiere – we are now fully out of stock on the TiVo HD. We do still have some TiVo HD XLs in stock, but those seem to be going fast.
So if you want this platform of TiVo for any reason, get one before they’re gone!
We’ve just slashed prices on our upgraded HD DVRs for DirecTV.
Now, get the 2 TB (yup, that’s 2 TERABYTE!) HR23 for $599.99 – a drop of $200! This unit holds up to 480 hours of HD recording – depending on the compression that DirecTV uses for the programming. So if you record a lot of sports, you need more space – DirecTV compresses sports less so you can slo-mo through the scenes at better quality.
Get ready for Multi Room Viewing (MRV) with a new HR23 DirecTV HD DVR! Click below:
