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DirecTV’s Whole Home DVR service brings recorded shows to any HD receiver in your house.
The DVR wars have been pretty fierce lately. Comcast has been targeting AT&T, DISH has been going after DirecTV on price, and DirecTV’s ads have been taking shots at just about everyone.
As of today, DirecTV has one more feather to place in their hat with the full release of Whole Home DVR.
The Whole-Home DVR feature allows programs from an HD DVR to be streamed to other non-DVR HD Receivers throughout your home. Up to 15 TVs, including the display the HD DVR is connected to, can take place in the streaming fun.
The best part is no new hardware is required. The slightly worse news is the service will tack $3/month onto your monthly bill, but I don’t foresee any natural disasters or magnetic poles shifting over that minor fee.
Not to miss a chance to get a few jabs in, the DirecTV Whole-Home DVR site takes shots at DISH Network’s Sling-enabled DVRs and cable company DVRs’ capacity and connectivity. I just wish someone would start throwing some punches TiVo’s way. Maybe then they would bring some more appealing features to their TiVo Premiere.
Other features DirecTV makes note of include: manage your DVR playlist from any room; record two shows while watching two others; and set separate parental controls for each TV.
Check out the YouTube video below for more on Whole-Home DVR:
Dish Netowrk is now offer free HD for life,,,
Not a problem, glad things worked out. I didn’t think of it before but everyone with HD service through Directv should also call them up to ask for free HD service for 24 months.
They are currently advertising free HD for life for new customers. What they aren’t advertising (to my knowledge) is that existing customers can possibly qualify for a $10 a month credit for 2 years. The trick to it is you have to either already be signed up for autopay or sign up for it to get the credit. Also if you already have monthly credits on your account for other things you may not qualify for the free HD until the existing credits expire.
@JW,
Thanks so much, because of your help, I now have whole house DVR and saved $100! You’re da bomb. =)
OK, sorry, I read your other post as you already had both receivers connected to your network. The non-DVR HD receiver has to be a model H21 or higher. The H20 stb’s that don’t have an ethernet port on them cannot be used for MRV. If that’s what you have you’ll need to upgrade that box to either another HD DVR or a H21, H23, or H24 HD receiver to utilize the multi-room service.
I believe that if you have Directv do the upgrade they would upgrade that receive at no cost beyond the install but you would need to verify that with Directv. If you want to keep things running on your network you could just change out that one box and move forward.
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We have had this service for about a month now and love it. It’s wonderful to start watching a movie in the living room, only to pause it and watch the conclusion in the bedroom.
Over the years when we had Cox, we had to have a DVR in each room we wanted DVR capability, and even then would have to duplicate recording if we wanted to watch the same thing in different rooms.
Plus, the Directv HD DVR kicks the ### of the ATL/SCI unit that Cox uses, in virtually every facet. I’m mad at my self that we didn’t switch earlier.