DirecTV has quietly updated both its iPad app and HR34 DVR with a variety of new features for Satellite-loving customers. The application will now resume from where you left off, comes with a much improved search function and best of all, a direct line into the company's support forums. Meanwhile, the HR34 swallowed a software package that included Pandora, a YouTube landing page and more readable closed captions amongst a raft of other nips and tucks. The former will be available through the app store, while the latter should have arrived on your box overnight, well before you start on that CSI marathon.
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There is a reason that DirecTV wanted this update to roll out quietly. I don’t think it was because they didn’t want to make a scene, because we all know DirecTV loves to toot its own horn. I am thinking that it had more to do with the fact this is the first major update they have done to the HR34 since its release last December with beta software. DIRECTV did add Pandora and YouTube apps to the receiver, so now you can jam out while you are cleaning and gross your kids out with pimple popping videos and scar them for life. The Pandora app is a great app; I have been using it religiously since it was released on the Hopper back in April. And I have to say my sound system is killer. The downside I have always seen to the HR34 is the recording space; only having 200 hours of HD recording time between 5 tuners can fill up quickly. If it was me, I would have to spend hours deleting shows just to be able to record the nightly programming. My Hopper had 60% more recording space at 500 hours of HD time, and since I al still working the night shift at Dish I record a lot of programs. The Hopper has more than enough room for my inner DVR packrat, and I wouldn’t enjoy television with out.
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