WeaKnees did a comparison of the DirecTV R10 (TiVo) and R15 (NDS) DVRs

Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2005 by MegaZone

At WeaKnees, we’ve been getting endless questions about the new DIRECTV DVR Plus – the R15, and asking us to compare it to the TiVo-based DIRECTV DVR R10. The question generally boils down to: Which is better? In an attempt to give you the information necessary to answer that question yourself, we’ve written up a comparison of the units, with an emphasis on details of the new non-TiVo R15 since most of our readers and customers are somewhat (if not very) familiar with TiVo DVRs.

It is a decent comparison, and the R15 doesn’t come out looking very good overall – though it has a couple of interesting features. They have more coming.

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  • jonabbey

    Damn, and damn. I just got an HDTV set, and I want to have HDTivo, but with DirecTV moving dropping TiVo with their new MPEG 4 broadcasts, I’ll have to either suck it up and use the new NDS crap, or drop DirecTV entirely and hope that TiVo comes out with a CableCard unit for HD over Time Warner.

    HDTV is so nice that I’d almost pick up the current HDTV DirecTiVo so that I can TiVo the over-the-air HDTV broadcasts here in Austin, but I’d hate to spend that kind of money when I’d wind up being shut out of a significant portion of DirecTV’s upcoming HDTV lineup.