{"id":311,"date":"2008-09-23T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T17:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-09-25T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T18:18:08","slug":"more-info-on-the-directv-hd-tivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/09\/more-info-on-the-directv-hd-tivo\/","title":{"rendered":"More Info on the DirecTV HD TiVo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DirecTV sent down a message to TiVo users this week about the announcement of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/09\/new-hd-tivo-for-directv\/\">new DirecTV HD TiVo<\/a> coming in 2009. The screenshots are posted here if you want to see them, but the interesting nuggets of info are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DirecTV&#8217;s Broadband\u00a0DIRECTV on DEMAND &#8211; which means the unit will have to support networking<\/li>\n<li>Universal Swivel Search &#8211; so it might work with Amazon&#8217;s Unbox (now Amazon Video on Demand)<\/li>\n<li>KidZone &#8211; Since this means it interacts with TiVo&#8217;s servers, it&#8217;ll likely work with some features from TiVo&#8217;s website, hopefully online scheduling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least this sets the stage for the possibility that TiVoToGo and all of those great networking features will be part of this new unit. Frankly, even if they aren&#8217;t, many people will want the unit just for the interface. But we&#8217;ve grown accustomed to the evolution of the cable TiVos, and we&#8217;re hoping this DirecTV unit will see those same enhancements.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-311 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/09\/more-info-on-the-directv-hd-tivo\/dsc00001\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dsc00001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/09\/more-info-on-the-directv-hd-tivo\/dsc00002\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dsc00002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/09\/more-info-on-the-directv-hd-tivo\/dsc00003\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dsc00003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DirecTV sent down a message to TiVo users this week about the announcement of a new DirecTV HD TiVo coming in 2009. The screenshots are posted here if you want to see them, but the interesting nuggets of info are: DirecTV&#8217;s Broadband\u00a0DIRECTV on DEMAND &#8211; which means the unit will have to support networking Universal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}