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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jerry @ Jul 27th 2007 11:10AM
I personally say stay away from the new DirecTV receivers if you're using a media center. My brother and I had a heck of a time trying to get it to work with the IR blaster and media center remote, only to have a DTV rep tell us that there was no way for the receiver to accept IR signals only, that it also had to receive the RF signals and that this was a security measure to keep non DTV approved equipment from interfacing with their receivers. (So a media center for example...) Maybe this was all hog wash and I was doing something wrong... but I've dealt with dozens of media centers and never had a problem except with the newer receivers, the HR20 included.
Kevin Murphy @ Jul 27th 2007 11:51PM
"I personally say stay away from the new DirecTV receivers if you're using a media center. My brother and I had a heck of a time trying to get it to work with the IR blaster and media center remote, only to have a DTV rep tell us that there was no way for the receiver to accept IR signals only, that it also had to receive the RF signals"
Hogwash!
I use a Radio Shack 15-1994 IR remote to control everything in my system. Including the HR20. ONLY infrared. What they told you was complete BS.
If you are having problems with an IR blaster, I know that the Hughes SD TiVo units had overload issues if you put the blaster too CLOSE. Back it off a bit.