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DIRECTV HR10-250 200 Hour DIRECTV DVR w/ TiVo
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: iBeck

Updated:12-09-06

Duration of ownership:1 Years

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

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

Overall Evaluation: 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
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: oumed73118

Updated:10-22-06

Duration of ownership:1 Days

Strengths: none

Weaknesses: did not function properly

Overall Evaluation: 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.
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: jptruck

Updated:06-15-06

Duration of ownership:

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

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

Overall Evaluation: 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.
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: tommymsw

Updated:06-09-06

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: can not think of any

Weaknesses: lease only

Overall Evaluation: 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.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: avsgroupie

Updated:04-06-06

Duration of ownership:4 Months

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 Evaluation: 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.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: dlwrightsman

Updated:01-19-06

Duration of ownership:30 Days

Strengths: Sattelite HD picture appears adequate

Weaknesses: Menu unacceptably slow.., OTA reception completely unacceptable

Overall Evaluation: I just upgrade both televisions (living room and Master bedroom) from standard Dirctv to HD. In the bedroom DTV shipped the HR10-250. Along with the upgraded receivers a new sattelite dish was required with 3lnbs and I chose to have DTV install a OTA antenna as well. The OTV reception via the HR10-250 is frankly.....pathetic. I unplugged the cable for the OTV and plugged it directly into my 37 inch LCD by LG and I immediately received all local stations nicely from the very OTV antenna that DTV installed. This immediately told me that it was not the antenna but rather the HR10-250, which is obvisiously having a problem. DTV is suppose to come out and attempt a tweak or repair but frankly, considering the cost of this receiver, this unit is a completely inadequate in every possible way. Regarding the menu, I could rewrite war and peace in a quicker fashion.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: deshwasi

Updated:10-25-05

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Overall Evaluation: Awesome Tivo receiver for DirecTV with all the bells and whistles. This is a HDTV Capable receiver with TiVo integrated into it for recording HDTV !! Has all the great features of TiVo with the added capability of recording HighDef programs to the massive TiVo hard drive. Its pricey though.
Overall Rating
4 Star Review

Reviewed by: dcl5

Updated:10-08-05

Duration of ownership:60 Days

Strengths: All the joys of TiVo, but in HD. Cables - easy user interface to get started without much issues.

Weaknesses: No DVI; cost; concern over mpeg4 moving forward?

Overall Evaluation: For anyone getting DirecTV, make sure you tell them to set up 2 connections for any TiVo device. Cost me an extra 2 hours of installation time since the work order was incorrectly stated. One piece of advice: if you don't want your TiVo to be flooded with programming you don't care about, go into settings and turn off 'record suggestions'. I think suggestions are cool that are tailored to the content you TiVo, but I don't like not recording programming for 7 days and coming back to find a big chunk of my HD is full. Plus, this will eventually force programming you want to save at risk of deletion. Just makes managing your programs much easier. On to the Receiver - this is a great product. Not sure if I would have dived in at $999, but the price of this is dropping quickly with the coming of the new HDTiVo. The big question that is being debated is whether or not this TiVo will be compatible with the new HD moving forward (mpeg-4 format). I am no technical expert, but from what I can gather, DirecTV will take care of you if there are any issues. Unlike Time Warner, retention actually does care about their customers (somewhat). The features on this are great. I wish there was a DVI connection, but there is only 1 HDMI connection. Recording in HD is amazing, and the user interface and features are very easy to use/manage. The user interface is alittle slow - I wish it was faster, but it is a small price to pay for this great unit. If you can get this unit for $300-400, I'd do it. Or - I'd hold out till the next generation, which should be about 6 months or so away.
Overall Rating
4 Star Review

Reviewed by: birdman 1101

Updated:10-03-05

Duration of ownership:3 Weeks

Strengths: Plenty of room for HD programming. All the necessary bundled cables including HDMI.

Weaknesses: Menus load a lot slower than regular Hughes/DirecTV Tivo unit. Slight sound delay that I haven't found a fix for yet (has been present on all my previous DirecTV hardware).

Overall Evaluation: I searched the web for discussion boards relating to DirecTV HD and this unit. From what I've been told, this has all the hardware needed for the newest Directv HD satellite deployments (2 in orbit with 2 more on the way). I managed to find that DirecTV has an unpublished offer for current customers of $299 for this unit, and there's a $100 rebate through October. Since I got an HD TV earlier this year and I don't get enough over the air channels to bother with an antenna, I had had enough of no HD viewing opportunities. As said above, the unit's menus are a bit slow. Directv's hd lineup is modest, and the major network feeds add a whole lot more (I wouldn't have signed up if the networks weren't offered.) Lots of sports viewing opportunities unless you're an NHL fan, in which case your only choice is HDNET (3 games a week) and NBC (2 games a week starting in January). The NHL blew it as far as HD when they didn't get another ESPN contract.
Overall Rating
5 Star Review

Reviewed by: teflonron

Updated:09-07-05

Duration of ownership:60 Days

Strengths: Hi-Def Tivo;HDMI;Price

Weaknesses: Slow menu/guide;Closed caption enable/disable

Overall Evaluation: Great HDTivo picture quality as compared to other cable/sat providers (sorry VOOM no Tivo). Easy to setup with or without 3rd party installer helping. Like any other DTivo the menus/guides are slow. The HDMI cable is sweet. One cable for audio & video. One button select for panel/stretch width to adjust for none HD content/channels. Same goes for swapping between 720i/720p/1080i. The closed caption toggle is buried so it takes a couple of menus to get to. Prices are reasonable now and DTV is offering deals /rebates on HD packages until they get a wider HD channel lineup. Just ask.