{"id":663,"date":"2009-09-04T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=663"},"modified":"2009-09-04T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T19:14:45","slug":"directv-double-play-dual-live-buffers-on-hr2x-hd-dvrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2009\/09\/directv-double-play-dual-live-buffers-on-hr2x-hd-dvrs\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Double Play &#8211; Dual Live Buffers on HR2x HD DVRs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened. DirecTV enabled dual live buffers on the DirecTV HD DVR. So that&#8217;s the HR20, HR21, HR22, HR23, and HR21 Pro. If you&#8217;ve got the latest software update, you can now have a buffer of two shows at once, without any fancy remote gymnastics.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve gotten the latest OS update, you&#8217;ll be seeing this screen soon:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-664\" title=\"double-play-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-1.jpg\" alt=\"double-play-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, when you&#8217;re watching your first show, you just press the Down arrow, and you&#8217;ll see this screen:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-665\" title=\"double-play-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-3.jpg\" alt=\"double-play-3\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I chose a bad program in the background there, because these results DON&#8217;T last. For whatever reason, DirecTV implemented this in a way that it dies on its own after two hours. So the next time you sit down at your TV, you&#8217;ve got to re-enable the feature. That&#8217;s as simple as just pressing the Down arrow and then OK again, but it seems silly, and it means that if you&#8217;re recording two shows at once, you don&#8217;t really get live buffers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the screen with those details:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-666\" title=\"double-play-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-4.jpg\" alt=\"double-play-4\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-4-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/double-play-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, even with a bit of a hitch, it&#8217;s still a great feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened. DirecTV enabled dual live buffers on the DirecTV HD DVR. So that&#8217;s the HR20, HR21, HR22, HR23, and HR21 Pro. If you&#8217;ve got the latest software update, you can now have a buffer of two shows at once, without any fancy remote gymnastics. If you&#8217;ve gotten the latest OS update, you&#8217;ll [&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\/663"}],"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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}