“DirecTV DVR owners got some bad news from the satellite TV provider recently when the company announced that it will break some of the existing functionality of the DVRs. Effective April 15, subscribers will only have 24 hours to watch pay-per-view movies recorded to their DVRs. Once the movies are purchased, the clock starts ticking, and after 24 hours, the PPV movie saved to your DVR will become nothing more than an unreadable collection of zeros and ones. ”
Talk about crappy. Sorry mom and dad. You will have to go back to renting DVDs for a week at a time.
Read more here.
I don’t know where this guy got the information. I have DirecTV and have not gotten this from them. I looked on the entire DirecTV web site and found nothing to substantiate it.
It is weird because Ars Technica is usually a pretty well regarded site. I think some of them are in the Boston area, so perhaps it is a slow roll-out and starting in some areas.
Or perhaps it is a test run…
I don’t know.