DIRECTV HD Receiver (Lease)

by DIRECTV

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B000F9Y0N4
• Item model number: DWO2-10019
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,826 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #3 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > Satellite Television > Systems
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 30, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

This is a leased product that requires a lease agreement with DIRECTV. As of 3/01/06, all DIRECTV products will be subject to a lease. Conditions of the lease include; an upfront lease fee (the amount will vary based on the product ordered) and a monthly lease fee on the second and each additional DIRECTV receiver per household. Please go to the FAQ section for complete details.

DIRECTV is the leader in HD programming with more sports, movies, and pay-per-view, plus HD local channels in certain markets. If there’s an HDTV in your future or present, DIRECTV is the undisputed HD champ.

The H20 DIRECTV® HD Receiver delivers a crystal clear picture (up to 1080i resolution), far superior to any cable TV service. The razor sharp images combined with the 16:9 aspect ratio turns your living room into a theater.

DIRECTV® HD Programming gets you vivid colors and life-like images, but that’s half the picture. Close your eyes and listen to a movie, now open your eyes and watch the same scene with no sound, having just the sound was more enjoyable, right? Great audio makes any show, movie, or sporting event better that’s why the H20 Receiver gives you access to Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound technology. Now you’ll truly be able to experience HD, not just watch it.

Looking for something to watch or can’t quite remember what channel a particular show comes on use the 7 day Advanced Programming Guide® to search for programs by title, actors, or genre. Seamlessly switch from DIRECTV® HD programming to Standard DIRECTV® programming and even to HD off-air programming.

What good is a top-notch piece of equipment like the DIRECTV® HD Receiver if it can be connected to your HDTV? No good, that’s why the DIRECTV® HD Receiver has a ton of outputs. Starting with HDMI, the best possible audio/video connection, and including Fiber Optic Audio, Component Video, S-Video, and Composite audio/video the DIRECTV® HD Receiver has all the connection bases covered.

Product Description

DIRECTV HD Receiver (Lease)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Resets galore!, January 1, 2007

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Adrenelinesurge (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DIRECTV HD Receiver (Lease) (Electronics)

If you like spontaneous resets during your bowl parties, this is the receiver for you! There's nothing better than entertaining a room full of friends and family with hand- and shadow-puppets while this POS resets. Takes a full 5 minutes to cycle through the reboot and DirecTV initialization. Meanwhile, you get a blank or blue screen on your HDTV! Count on 20-50 of these resets during any given football weekend.

It just now reset again during my Rose Bowl party!

Here's the best part: DirecTV knows about the problem! And has done nothing to fix it, just keeps selling them like hotcakes to unsuspecting buyers like you.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good picture, but buggy, January 19, 2007

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E. Oxenberg "Just another stay-at-home comput... (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DIRECTV HD Receiver (Lease) (Electronics)

Allows you to receive DirecTV's HD channels, can attach OTA antenna to fill in the HD channels that DirecTV doesn't offer (yet). relatively easy-to-use interface.

Good: Automatically switches to the best resolution for each HD station; very clear picture and sound quality with HD channels, lots of outputs, including HDMI for digital to digital throughput.

Bad: DirecTV's HD receivers have the reputation (deserved, unfortunately) of having dropout problems. Even installers admit that these boxes will occasionally drop audio for 10-20 seconds, and often at the same time either pixelize the image or drop the signal entirely to a blue screen. This usually occurs just as the mystery you've been watching for 45 minutes is about to be revealed. Mine also reset the favorite channels every week or two; I'd notice because I would press the channel-up button but nothing would happen. This only happens if there are no channels to move to. I'd go through the tedium of picking the 80 favorite channels I wanted from the 600 available, but it would clear them again within a few weeks.

I had to have DirecTV replace my box after I documented 1-2 dropouts every watched hour; that was up to 40 interrupted hours in a 20-hour viewing month. It has gotten better, but I still have occasional sound dropouts every week. If I didn't get free DirecTV with my home rental every month, I'd probably give up and switch to cable.

Bottom line: It's what you need to get HD from DirecTV. Just don't expect it to be perfect

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good receiver - (no duh craig, it's not a dvr), October 21, 2006

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Kfu Mike "Kfu" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DIRECTV HD Receiver (Lease) (Electronics)

Yes, of course this isn't a DVR, Neither Amazon nor Directv descriptions say that it is. I got this as a second HD receiver (see my other review of the HR20-700 DVR as well) for a bedroom where I didn't need the recording capability, the HDMI output to my 30" Samsung is spectacular. This one seems a little slower than the HR20 version, but I may not have the proper software version. Overall, I like it. (it replaces a Samsung SIR-TS160 which was only 3 LNB cabable)