Back in early March, we wrote about our first shipment of the HR21 Pro and its bells and whistles. Those boxes flew out the door.
After a month-long wait, we have finally received our next large shipment of the DIRECTV HR21 Pro from DIRECTV. All but a handful are going out the door today, so if you want one, get your order in now.
We will be getting another large order in less than a week, we hope, so watch the website for stock information.
We put this up a little while ago, but never linked to it here.
So if you’re looking for some hints about how to move quickly around in recordings, or how to access certain features without navigating through long menus, see our HR20 and HR21 remote tips.
We’ve been selling DirecTV Single Wire Multiswitches (SWMs) for some time.
Due to fluctuations in pricing, we’ve always sold these with coupons, on the theory that we could adjust the coupon as our cost changed. But that seemed to be a royal pain. So, now that we have good access to the switches, and pretty consistent pricing, we’ve just lowered the price and made it simple. $279 gets you a SWM!
An interview with Jim Denney of TiVo has a quote by Denney stating that Amazon Unbox will be available in HD “in the not too distant future.” That would be nice! So far, I’ve been using my AppleTV for better quality than my TiVo for online downloads. Frankly, while there are many advantages to the AppleTV, I’d rather use my TiVo just because I prefer the TiVo remote. So HD would bring me back over for downloads.
But I’m still pleading to all three companies (Apple, TiVo, and Amazon – even though it’s really not the fault of any of you three): please, PLEASE lengthen the 24 hour viewing window for rented video. It’s just not long enough, and it’s keep me and many others from renting more movies.
Sound like a bit of a blast from the past? Yup, that’s right. The Humax T2500.
This is definitely a bit of an older unit, but it’s a pretty good one, and it’s pretty cheap. We’re selling them at $99 as our “deal of the day” today, and likely for a few days.
Just to be clear, this is a standard definition, analog unit (it has no digital tuner – for more on that see our blog post about the digital transition), with no internal DirecTV tuner. Further, many people associate Humax with the DVD burner units – we have those, too, but this isn’t one of them. This unit is basically a TCD540040 clone, branded by Humax, with a much larger capacity.
So that said, why would you want one of these? Lots of reasons: