Standard DIRECTV Receiver Review

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(More customer reviews)I had a Samsung DVR for a little over 3 years and had to replace it. The only thing at Best Buy was this DirectTV DVR. It has been two months now and I still am not used to the remote control. I don't like the user interface with this unit at all. I believe with my Samsung, I had TIVO and now I have DirectTV DVR service.
On the Samsung unit, you could click on info and see the year, actors, brief synopsis and more for shows. It is hit and miss on the DirectTV unit - almost no information shows. I have had trouble setting up season passes and doing searches for several channels - SCI-FI and USA to be specific. I used to have a nice long keyword list for searches. That no longer exists.
I have a Dual LNB dish and I used to be able to push the live TV button to get to what was showing on the other tuner. This isn't on the new unit. I was able to program the remote in my bedroom to work the TV but no matter what I did, I could not get the remote to control the volume in my living room. Over all, I really hate this receiver.
There are some pros that I will list though. One is when your phone rings, it pops the caller ID info on the TV screen. You can also subscribe to the game channels on direct tv. Extra remotes can be purchased from DirectTV and are not very expensive.
I will probably try to replace this DirectTV receiver for something different at my soonest opportunity. I just find it frustrating to use after having a Samsung.
Just an update on this - April 2009. I don't know what I was thinking when I gave this thing 2 stars!! It did not deserve it. 2 Stars was way too high for this piece of junk. If you have a TIVO unit that goes bad, do whatever you have to do to get the TIVO fixed but do not buy a Direct TV DVR. The user interface is so horrible and the hardware sucks - I have had to reset the entire unit about 5 times and lost everything I had recorded.
You know when something is really bad when under suggested Tags "Piece of Crap" is suggested.
Update March 2010 - I still hate this unit.

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DIRECTV Plus R15 - DVR / Satellite TV receiver - 100 hour(s) - DIRECTV Review

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(More customer reviews)I've owned the R10 and other Tivo based units. This unit, the R15, is by far the worst DVR of all time. DirecTV is doing first time PVR users a diservice by turning them off to the jobs of PVR ownership.
It's slow.
Impossible to navigate.
Buggy.
Crashes.
Worthless.
Be warned.

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Samsung B2430HD 24-Inch WideScreen LCD Monitor Review

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(More customer reviews)The specs, price, and graphics quality in particular are excellent for this model.
But there are some serious disadvantages, exacerbated by Samsung's lack of support and unusually hostile response to those who are complaining about it.
The driver disk that comes with this product doesn't load in Windows 7 64-bit, which is now the standard for newer computers. You can find drivers that work, but not easily from the official Samsung site. There are actually two drivers, one for VGA and one for HDMI connections. In VGA mode, the monitor's native resolution of 1920x1080 is not supported; it deforms horizontally and clips off 3/4" on either side of the screen, thus converting squares into rectangles and circles into ovals, a fact that even level 2 Samsung support defiantly insists is OK.
In HDMI mode, they have written a fix (as of this writing) which allows a hardware option to 'fit screen' instead of the usual '16x9', which of course never should have been necessary, since the monitor itself is shaped as a 16x9 to naturally match the 16x9 standard. Also, the default mode for use in HDMI is AV, not PC, and if you don't override that, the type quality in particular is smeared and virtually unusable.
Worse yet, the front panel controls, which are both critical and extremely difficult to use, except in very bright light, can be overridden by software (convenient), but again ONLY if you are not using Windows 7 64-bit, a limitation you can find buried in their Web site.
Of the three reviews submitted to their site, it got one five star and two one-star reviews, and Samsung deleted the initial one-star and refused to publish mine. A company that makes a lot of fine products can get in serious trouble treating users as the enemy and failing to support those products. Be forewarned.

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