DirecTV subscribers are often frustrated by the lack of benefits to current customers, while the service continues to advertise great deals, like free NFL Sunday Ticket, to new subscribers. Well, right now the satellite company is throwing a bone to current users by offering their brand new Genie HD DVR for free.
The Genie is the latest upgrade to the receiver / DVR and it offers a long list of benefits that make it a much better device than the current HR 23 and HR 24 hardware. Those older receivers featured two tuners, meaning you could either record two shows at a time or record one while watching another. They also featured a fairly sizable 500 GB hard drive, which provided plenty of storage for most people.
If, however, you find yourself, as my family has, receiving messages that you need to cancel a recording because you have more than two things set, or because you are watching something while two other shows are scheduled, or running out of space during an big event like the summer Olympics, then you may want the Genie. The new DVR offers an incredible 5 tuners and 1 TB of storage. In addition, all of the previous version’s features are also included.
So why not upgrade? Well, there is one stumbling block that may turn off some customers. You will need to agree to a brand new two year contract just like the one you got way back when you first signed up for the service.
If you don’t mind the extra two year agreement, or simply can’t live anymore without more tuners or more space, then this is a no-brainer. If you aren’t worried about these things, or planning to cut the cord, then you should probably skip this deal.
I’ve been experimenting for some time with connecting computers to televisions, along with a variety of other set-top boxes. I’m now at a point where I’ve begun to draw a few conclusions.
Sometimes things no one ever thought of simply seem to come together. Services and devices end up being used to do things the individual inventors and designers couldn’t have imagined.
