{"id":268,"date":"2008-06-10T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-06-10T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T16:17:44","slug":"directv-slimline-swm-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/06\/directv-slimline-swm-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV: Slimline SWM on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a DirecTV DVR user, you know the value of having two satellite feeds to your DVR: you can record two shows at once. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/swm-directv.php\">DirecTV SWM<\/a> products make wiring this a lot easier &#8211; in many cases you can just use existing cable wiring since you can send up to eight feeds through one wire with these multiswitches.<\/p>\n<p>But DirecTV is testing a product that takes this one step further: a 5LNB dish with an integrated Single Wire Multiswitch. This basically puts the two products into one, and for new DirecTV installations, it should greatly simplify matters. The one caveat is that this unit won&#8217;t support any legacy products, like DirecTV TiVos.<\/p>\n<p>More on this as we learn about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a DirecTV DVR user, you know the value of having two satellite feeds to your DVR: you can record two shows at once. The new DirecTV SWM products make wiring this a lot easier &#8211; in many cases you can just use existing cable wiring since you can send up to eight feeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}