How does dtv whole home work

This wasn't a problem for me as I was immediately able to switch to Spanish, being a fluent speaker, but your average person might not be able to do that. July The "initial" second visit was supposed to have occurred the following Monday.

I wasn't at home, as I was away on business, but my wife waited all morning and nobody showed up. To make a long story short, another technician showed up the next day, Tuesday. Very cool. As you can see in the video I have posted above, I can now share the playlists between both of the HD DVRs in my house and also watch the content from either DVR in either room of my house.

If I so desired, I could buy additional receiver units and watch DVR content from either of these two units in other rooms. If we watch a DVR-recorded movie in the Living Room during the evening, and we get tired, we can go upstairs and watch the rest of it in the bedroom. The only drawback to the current system is that the two DVRs are still autonomous, even though their content is shared with each other. In other words, I have to continue to program them independently and be aware that each unit is consuming recording space and maintain a To-Do recording list on each.

With a single, centralized DVR it's easier because you can set content controls on the receiver units not to display movies and programming with specific ratings, but if you have more than one unit, all you can do is set a DVR not to share its playlist. So if mommy and daddy have a DVR in their bedroom and record mature content say, "Spartacus, Blood and Sand" , they have to set that DVR not to share its list, but that means that when they are downstairs in the living room, they can't watch any of the G or PG-rated stuff the bedroom DVR has recorded either.

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One of the best and previously most requested features of the system is the ability to manage your recorded shows from any TV with a receiver.

Before, you'd have to trek to the primary box to do your DVR business then march right back to your viewing TV. With this system, all the receivers are synced in real-time and redundantly, so whatever changes you make in one room will be automatically applied to the rest. Familiar with computer networks, I was a bit skeptical at how well that would actually work, but I've used mine for over 6 months and, trust me, put it through every test possible possible and it's passed each one.

Since this was the first system on the market with multi-room syncing, the other providers were left playing catch-up. Cable doesn't appear to have anything remotely in the works to match it, while DISH recently released their Hopper with Joey system that also controls your entire home. Nevertheless, it's an impressive first step for DISH.