{"id":582,"date":"2009-04-29T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-04-29T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:10:17","slug":"directv-and-off-air-hd-the-am21-shortage-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2009\/04\/directv-and-off-air-hd-the-am21-shortage-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV and Off-Air HD: The AM21 Shortage Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a DirecTV HD DVR HR21 or later, and you want to get your OTA HD signals into your unit, you need the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/tivo-directv-parts.php#h20\">DirecTV AM21<\/a> (or, &#8220;antenna module&#8221;). This unit basically just adds off-air capability to your DVR.<\/p>\n<p>But the AM21 has been out of stock pretty much everywhere for many weeks now. And our distributors don&#8217;t even know when they&#8217;ll be getting these units.<\/p>\n<p>So what can you do? The answer is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/directv-hd-dvr.php#hr20\">HR20 DirecTV HD DVR<\/a>. This was the first of the MPEG-4 capable DirecTV HD DVRs, and it has an off-air module built-in. DirecTV later removed this capability, likely to lower manufacturing costs, plus to force customers to get their local HD channels from DirecTV &#8211; at $5\/month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-583\" title=\"DirecTV HD DVR HR20\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/directv-hr20-700.jpg\" alt=\"DirecTV HD DVR HR20\" width=\"524\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/directv-hr20-700.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/directv-hr20-700-150x32.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/directv-hr20-700-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We still have a good supply of the HR20 in stock, shipping every day from our warehouse in Los Angeles. If you&#8217;re looking for a new DVR with OTA capability, this is a great machine, and, currently, the only way to get OTA into an MPEG-4 DirecTV DVR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a DirecTV HD DVR HR21 or later, and you want to get your OTA HD signals into your unit, you need the DirecTV AM21 (or, &#8220;antenna module&#8221;). This unit basically just adds off-air capability to your DVR. But the AM21 has been out of stock pretty much everywhere for many weeks now. [&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\/582"}],"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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}