DIRECTV has been promoting their new Genie system pretty heavily. The Genie is essentially one HR34 HMC (we’ve got those in stock also) and one to three C31 clients.
The C31 is a nice, small unit that was designed to work only with an HR34. It uses the tuners and storage of the HR34.
Since it does so little on-board, the actual component is extremely small – great for mounting behind a flat-screen TV.
You can order a C31 here.
The remote that shipped with the new DIRECTV TiVo was certainly a surprise. While it looks and feels like a standard TiVo Peanut Remote, it’s different. It has totally different IR codes (and it has RF!).
Now, up until this point, all TiVo Peanut Remotes basically had overlapping capabilities. They all could share the standard buttons like TiVo, pause, the numbers, channel up/down, etc. And then some had more specific buttons, like the DVD playing buttons the DVD TiVo remotes have, or the ABCD buttons on the TiVo Premiere remotes, or the keyboard on the Slide Remote. But the main buttons just worked with any other TiVo that also came with a Peanut-shaped remote.
The compatibility for any Peanut remote with any other Peanut remote ended with the THR22. The THR22 is just not compatible with any other TiVo remote. So we had to find and source this remote separately, and they’re now in stock – you can order one from our TiVo THR22 accessories page.
But there’s a silver lining here, at least for some. While it’s not compatible with other TiVo DVRs, it is compatible with DIRECTV HD DVRs. So if you’ve got, say, an HR22 and you’ve always fondly remembered the TiVo remote, well, you can use this! IR code wise, it’s basically the same as the white remotes supplied by DIRECTV.
We’ve gotten through our first backlog, and then our second backlog, and now we’ve finally got plenty of units on hand and in stock.
So if you’re looking for a DIRECTV THR22 HD TiVo, we’re shipping them out every weekday. And we’ve got them in the stock size (500GB) and up to four times that (2TB).
We’ve had many inquiries about extra remotes for the new DIRECTV HD DVR TiVo THR22. You can now get on the pre-order list for these remotes on this DIRECTV remote page.
You might wonder why it’s on the page with the generic DIRECTV remotes and there’s a good reason: it’s compatible with those remotes. That means two things:
So if you’re one of the many people who, over the years, moved away from TiVo DVRs to the other DIRECTV DVRs, but still like the TiVo peanut remote style, you’re in luck! This remote will work your unit, so you get all of the features that the other DVRs have that the TiVo doesn’t currently have, but you also get the best, most intuitive remote around. Sorry that we can’t get you the great TiVo interface on those units also . . .
We’ve got tracking info – our first shipment of these will be in today.
We’ll be working hard to get as many out today as possible.
If you’re looking for a THR22, order soon. We’re working through our backorder list, but we don’t expect to have many left after we finish off the list. And we’re not sure when our next shipment will arrive.