DIRECTV Plus HD DVR

I recently had the misfortune of sitting down at a friends home that has yet to move from DIRECTV’s HD receiver to the new DIRECTV Plus HD DVR. I left the room during what was described to me as the most incredible play in our team’s history. To my dismay the replays had already finished. I picked up their remote control expecting to hit the rewind button only to remember they don’t have the Plus HD DVR. All I can say is that my friend missed a classic and I found myself longing to watch the game back home.

The DIRECTV Plus HD DVR is an amazing receiver that makes your viewing experience incredible. This receiver can display the DIRECTV HD channels with its high-def capabilities as well as record your favorite shows with its DVR system. High-definition can be watched in mpeg-2 or mpeg-4 format and the receiver is standard definition mpeg-2 enabled.

Subscribers with this DVR can record up to 200 hours of SD and 50 of HD. The ease of use in recording a show or series is impressive. Direct TV makes it easy to setup recordings via the web, your mobile phone or while sitting at the TV so that you will never have to miss a program. I was pleasantly shocked to discover that I could use my mobile phone to setup a recording of the Boston Celtics game while I was out to dinner with friends.

Recording a series gives you tons of options with the ability to specify how many shows to save, whether to record repeats, start or stop times and how long to keep the episodes. If the network changes the time and day of my series DIRECTV handles all that for me. There is no need to change my recording information.

The DIRECTV Plus HD DVR gives me incredible control over my viewing experience. Any program that is being watched can be paused to refill the popcorn bowl or rewound to watch a scene over for up to 90 minutes of programming. I can even record two shows at once or watch a separate show from the one I am recording. There is little more that I could ask for with this DVR. I can even turn on Parental Controls to prevent the younger generation from getting to unapproved content.

Top of all the control this receiver give you over your television watching with the amazing audio and video quality and it is hard to believe that more people have not made the switch from a standard DVR to the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR. Images are sharp and crisp with brighter colors while the sound quality is superb. This receiver is even Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound capable making it a versatile component that can be easily integrated into your home theatre system.

As an added bonus this receiver allows me to share photos and music that have been stored on my PC through my HDTV. PC’s must be Intel Viv processor technology-based for this feature.

Once you get the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR you will never want to go back to a standard receiver. The gang will just have to watch the game from my large-screen HDTV so that we will not miss a single throw, catch, or score next time.