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There's talk of Directv coming out with a unit that will make HR10-250 a bit obsolete. Not obsolete, but absolutely not the cutting edge machine that you laid out $1000 for not that long ago.

Don't get stuck with any outdated equipment. Unlike computers, you don't have to eat the entire cost after only a couple of years of use.

Anticipate the release date of the new units the best you can and sell the old unit. You just need to do it before a hot new machine hits the market to get the best price. It's easily done on eBay, audiogon.com or videogon.com

I recovered 75% of the cost of my Zenith sat 520 (remember when that was the killer receiver of the day?) by selling it before word leaked out about an HD DVR. There's always buyers out there who don't keep up on the latest news, or are just looking for a bargain and don't need the newest stuff.

It's really not that much of an advancement. although I do like the caller id feature. Here's the read on it.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/578/578382p1.html

HiDeffjeff wrote:It's really not that much of an advancement. although I do like the caller id feature. Here's the read on it.

http://gear.ign.com/articles/578/578382p1.html

I think he's talking about the MPEG4 conversion. That will need an entirely new unit way beyond Caller ID.

DirectTV announced last year that NDS would be making the new DVR models in the future. NDS is a company also controlled by Rupert Murdoch who took control of DirecTV last year, and NDS furnishes the DVR units for the UK satellite system. Further info on this recent news link. As I understand it the initial units are NOT HD, but regular SDTV DirecTV alternates for the SDTV Tivo units.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/07/technol ... ectv.reut/

I read somewhere the at least initially none of the NDS DVR units were for HD, which would remain with Tivo for now. The UK does not have HD and NDS would be on a learning curve to build HD. I am guessing NDS will probably be there with a HD DVR by the 2007 HD satellite expansion, or possibly sooner