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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
I just heard a rumor
About a special deal from DirecTV for a $299 Hughes HR10-250 HiDef DVR plus a $100 mail-in rebate. Well, there I go again, making this a "what I want to buy" post. Oh well. I'll post an update/response to this if calling the DirecTV customer retention center at 1-800-600-8977 does any good. A call to customer service already resulted in a flat denial and feigned ignorance of any such offer.
I've also heard that DirecTV is planning to roll out MPEG4 encoding and will be upgrading all hardware soon. This should allow them to have more bandwidth for more HD programming, I assume.
My current DirecTIVO (series 2 standard def unit) that I have hacked and used for almost a year now just had problems. I swapped back to the original drive image and it booted up ok, and then I forced an update (2 hour down load over the phone). I went from version 3.1.1b-02-2-301 to 6.2-01-2-301. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to hack this version. The latest info I have for hacking is for 4.0.
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UPDATE:
I just got off the phone with DirecTV, and asked about this deal (I HAD to call the 1-800-600-8977, which seems like it is an internal non-publicized line). She was very quiet and hesitant, but finally admitted, that yes, she does have that offer. She asked me what agent had told me about it and transferred me to her. I told her I had a direct number. I got the feeling she wasn't happy about it, but made good once that was past and happily set me up for installation of the new HR10-250 DVR, and also a new 18x20" triple LNB dish, plus up to two lines installation for the DVR, just 2 days from now, all for $329.65 minus $100 MIR (oh, and a 2 year contract).
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I just got off the phone with DirecTV, and asked about this deal (I HAD to call the 1-800-600-8977, which seems like it is an internal non-publicized line). She was very quiet and hesitant, but finally admitted, that yes, she does have that offer. She asked me what agent had told me about it and transferred me to her. I told her I had a direct number. I got the feeling she wasn't happy about it, but made good once that was past and happily set me up for installation of the new HR10-250 DVR, and also a new 18x20" triple LNB dish, plus up to two lines installation for the DVR, just 2 days from now, all for $329.65 minus $100 MIR (oh, and a 2 year contract).
