Quite a few people have reported that Series 2 TiVo DVRs with DIRECTV are losing local channels. We don’t know what changes at DIRECTV have caused this issue, but it seems that only units running outdated software are impacted.<\/p>\n
So long as your unit is running the latest version of the TiVo software (6.4a), you should be fine. If your unit is running an earlier version, then it is not going to update itself, even if it is plugged into a phone line. Some DIRECTV reps seem to be telling customers that that units will update themselves, but this has not happened in years and we have not heard any reports of DIRECTV turning on automatic software updates for standard def TiVos.<\/p>\n
If your DIRECTV TiVo has recently lost its local channels, you might consider a hard drive upgrade kit<\/a>. Our drives for the Series2 DIRECTV TiVo DVRs come pre-loaded 6.4a. Alternatively, if you know that your TiVo drive is fully functional, we can load the latest version onto your drive (but we unfortunately cannot save your programming or settings). See here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here is a list of impacted units:<\/p>\n DIRECTV R10 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quite a few people have reported that Series 2 TiVo DVRs with DIRECTV are losing local channels. We don’t know what changes at DIRECTV have caused this issue, but it seems that only units running outdated software are impacted. So long as your unit is running the latest version of the TiVo software (6.4a), you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDIRECTV HR10-250
\nHughes HDVR2
\nHughes SDDVR40 \/ 80 \/ 120
\nPhilips DSR7000
\nPhilips DSR704
\nPhilips DSR708
\nRCA DVR39 \/ 40 \/ 80 \/ 120
\nSamsung SIR-4040R
\nSamsung SIR-4080R
\nSamsung SIR-4120R<\/p>\n