DirecTV's newest satellite set to launch on June 20th

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Xyzzy @ May 11th 2007 12:11PM

Where's a list stating exactly what cities are covered by local HD?

Also, I wonder if these new birds will use MPEG-2 until a majority of people get converted over to MPEG-4 receivers. There's a lot of HR10-250s out there that can't decode MPEG-2 (I'm one of them), and I don't want to "upgrade" because I love the TiVo interface and you can't combine/split an OTA signal with the new dishes... :(

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Dean @ May 11th 2007 8:00PM

The list is here, by the way:

http://www.dbstalk.com/hr20/html/DIRECTV_lil_list.html

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Randolph @ May 11th 2007 8:36PM

Xyzzy, that is exactly my concern... I have 2 of the HR10-250s one of which cost me a lot of $$$ as an early adopter... I have been a TIVO fan since they sold the first DirecTVIO and I was one of the first 100 homes in New England to have DirecTV So I think I qualify as a loyal customer. I can run the HR10s in my sleep the interface is so 2ed nature to me

All that said if my only option for more HD programming from DirecTV is having to replace the HR10s with the downright nasty (a neighbour has one Or rather he has had about 4 or 5 before he got one that is marginally useful just as Tim P has said in these comments) HR20s ... if things like the History Channel are also on my Time Warner digital cable this fall then I will be ending my long relationship with the satellites and I too will be getting a series 3 TiVo if it can be made to work well with Time Warner... I have one of Time Warners DCT 6412 III DVR boxes and a TiVo it is NOT! so if I go 100% Cable I will have to find a way to do it with a TiVo of some sort

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