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DirecTV 3D update causes headaches for HD DVR users

By Alex Nunez on June 8, 2010 in

DirecTV Dish

Are you a DirecTV customer? Do you have their HD Plus DVR? If so, you likely had (or currently have) issues today, thanks to an upgrade that the satellite provider pushed out to the devices overnight. I'm a subscriber and my primary TV has one of the aforementioned DVRs connected to it, and yes, I had problems. Here's what went wrong, and how to fix it if you're having trouble today. Read more

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By Carl Laron on November 6, 2009 in

Watching TV

Digital video recorders, or DVRs, were once thought to be the weapon that would kill advertiser-supported TV. After all, conventional wisdom asks: Who wouldn't simply skip past all of the commercials when watching a time-shifted program? Well, according to an article in The New York Times, a funny thing happened on the way to the funeral. Instead of killing off commercial TV, the DVR might be what saves it. Nielsen, the company that tallies up viewership for TV networks and advertisers, reports that more and more people are keeping their fingers off the clicker as commercials drift by when watching programs recorded on their DVRs.

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