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daveka

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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 2:58 PM

Anyone with a NON-DVR receiver get the update yet

I have the HR20 and a H21, the MRV is installed on the HR 20 but not on the H21. I do not understand directv rollout, what good is it to have the MRV on one and not the other. What are the directv engineers thinking, I just ASK when will the beta launch date be for the h21 firmware upgrade. A recomendation, DTV Beta launch dates for what reciever, should be in the DTV mail.Come on DTV give us some good news, been with DTV 15 years.

Anyone have info please ?????

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iamqnow

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15 years ago

As far as I know, which is about 2’, the roll-outs go from the doomed left coast to the east. So I should be okay. At least for the next 30 seconds. (the glass is half empty.)



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lcinstall

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15 years ago

Has anyone in Arizona received the update. I am in Prescott, AZ about 90 miles north of Phoenix and my H21 has not got the update yet, forced download still nothing. I am a tech for DTV and we have not been informed of anything to do with the Multi-room Beta. Current software is 0x434D.

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dcd

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15 years ago

I hate to say this but it appears to me that the roll out is stalled again. There must be some problem they're having with it because they've already changed the version designation once. I'm assuming this software is more complex than the DVR version because they have to put all of the menus and controls for recorded program playback in the software whereas the DVR's already had the basic tools and hardware.

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iamqnow

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15 years ago

Thanks, dcd, for the input.



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dbindley

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15 years ago

I am in Washington, I figured I would have had it by now. If it started the 17th, we are 10 days into it now.

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dbindley

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15 years ago

well that is a bummer. How can we find out the status of the rollouts, when they happen? Seems a few select people know about the dates and stalls and everything else.

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greywolf

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15 years ago

http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=172920 has some info.

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dbindley

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15 years ago

I didn't see anything in the forum that said the roll out was stopped for any reason. Seems to me that there are a lot of ppl excited about this and there could be a little bit more communication about it.

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testerx

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15 years ago

According to the release notes and other posts at dbstalk.com it seems rollout for the H21/23 started as 0x4395 on 1/20, stopped for a time, then resumed as 0x438A on 2/17...

http://www.dbstalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=110

DirecTV seldom makes public announcements about software rollouts, in part I assume to avoid being inundated with calls from people wondering why they haven't received the update yet.

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cml750

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15 years ago

If they would at least post a schedule(and try to keep to it) they could avoid a lot of calls.

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djdicetn

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15 years ago

IMHO, any "calls" to DirecTV regarding software releases will be a "dead end"!!! And after reading the threads on the dbstalk forum using the link previously posted here, it doesn't look good for the HD receiver MRV rollout. There is mention of much confusion as to the release number for the national release(there have been 3 completely different release numbers mentioned and/or rollout started, then stopped) and even some question as to how the most recent download available for Cutting Edge testers can be found. I'm not holding my breath, although like most single HD DVR with additional HD receiver users, I can't help being a little discouraged with D* for the significant delay between the HD DVR rollout and the HD receiver rollout. Advantage multiple networked HD DVR users:0(

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iamqnow

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15 years ago

Advantage multiple networked HD DVR users. Guess we have no choice but to wait. Unhappily wait, but wait none the less.



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cml750

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15 years ago

"Advantage multiple networked HD DVR users"



Funny thing is that if you have all DVR's then there is not as a big of need to make them multi-room. The reason I want this is to have access to my DVR in all my rooms. If I already had a DVR in all rooms then this would not be as needed feature. I realize that if someone has all DVR's then they can access the content of each DVR from the others but still it is not as important as it is to those of us who have 1 single DVR and multiple non-DVR receivers.

Hurry up and release the software Direct TV.

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iamqnow

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15 years ago

(Funny thing is that if you have all DVR's then there is not as a big of need to make them multi-room.) Could not agree more. And… what no one mentions anymore is the fact that the original plan, per the forums, was NOT DVR to DVR! It was DVR to receiver.



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djdicetn

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15 years ago

It is my understanding that the main reason that the DVR-to-DVR release of MRV was first was because the coding changes to the software were easier(the DVR's already had "DVR-like" menus, like List and the Playlist controls). The HD receivers, however, required massive software coding changes to make them "emulate" a DVR(and subsequently more "unexpected features"...which is a nice way of saying "bugs"....to work out). Apparently the exterminators(programmers and testers) had not refined the HD receiver software as well as first thought when the decision was made to start rolling out MRV(IMHO, most likely the decision was influenced by "heat from corporate" over all the Dish and other competitors touting a multi-room advantage over DirecTV every ad they put out......in other words the top D* executives said "get it on the street NOW").

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It may be a blessing in disguise that we didn't get the first HD receiver software release or our HD receivers would possibly be "running backwards":0)

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