Hughes Hughes HR10-250 200 Hour

• Reviewed by: iBeck

  Strengths: Ample I/O, 30 hours HD recording, 200 hours SD.

  Weaknesses: DirecTv...No USB support?.. (No DirecTv TiVo units support USB functionality)

  Overall: This is my fourth TiVo unit. I am extremely happy with it. I have waited along time for TiVo, DirecTv & Hughes to release frimware updates(Oct '06), but I am pleased to announce my patience has paid off.All of the functioanlity of my SD 80 hour TiVo has been implemented and all of my gripes have been addressed in the latest firmware upgrade.This is a quality receiver and would recommend it to all of my family & friends.P.S. another Firmware update is due in mid Jan '07

• Reviewed by: oumed73118

  Strengths: none

  Weaknesses: did not function properly

  Overall: The Hughes DirecTivo HR10-250 worked for only four hours before permanently freezing up. Multiple tech support remedies advised by three different techs failed as well. The unit is unusable.

• Reviewed by: jptruck

  Strengths: Good signal, picture on the channels you receive.

  Weaknesses: Slow, DirecTV only offers local channels in big markets.

  Overall: My biggest peave is that I live in the mid-Atlantic and all I recieve is the freaking Discovery Channel. YOU WILL NOT get all the channels because of in-fighting with Cable, Satellite and the networks. Just save yourself the frustration and get a cable HD box until they figure this out.

• Reviewed by: tommymsw

  Strengths: can not think of any

  Weaknesses: lease only

  Overall: I bought this unit only to discover that DirecTv claims ownership to it. I have to pay a lease fee. Also, if I choose to get rid of it, they take it. Aparantly this purchase is just a down payment on a lease. Unit does not work fully with my dish. My aspect ratio changes from "full" to "letterbox" but the wrong way (tall and skinny). Can not change ratio on HD channels (stays stretched to full on both settings). Tivo sounds stop when on Hd channels. Sound cracks when changing channels. Programs do not group. Huge Tivo fan... but I find DirecTv repulsive.

• Reviewed by: avsgroupie

  Strengths: Good standard def and high-def picture quality

  Weaknesses: Slow to respond and operating functions are arcane. You have to go several layers deep in the menu to do anything.

  Overall: You have to reprogram it every time it's powered off with an undocumented feature to use skip forward the way it should work in the first place. Selecting programs to record is just plain stupid. The programming team that put the menu system together must be idiots. Trying to program multiple shows and figure out scheduling conflicts is arduous at best. The unit is unbelievably slow. It's too bad Tivo/Hughes didn't hire the programmers from UTV.