"Hedley" wrote in message
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DirecTV is the only satellite associated with the Tivo brand DVR, I
believe.

An Tivo is what you want, if for nothing other than the reqind/play
feature that anticipates where you meant to start playing the show you atr
fast-forwarding or reqinding and starts playing it there. You can be fast
forwarding through the 4 minute block of commercials on FoodTV and when
you see your show back on, just hit play (not play, rewind, play,
fast-forward, rewind and play) and the show starts playing just about
where you want it to.

I had a generic DVR for a year and hated it. Took the joy right out of
skipping commercials.

I have had the DirecTV Tivo set up for about 3 years now and love it. I was
with Dish Network for too many years. Word is however that Tivo is being
dropped by DirecTV and I could not fine any Tivo units on the DirecTV site
yesterday. They are showing a new DVR with no reference to Tivo.

Tivo by itself however can now record 2 satellite channels at one time but
not 2 HD channels. Go figure.