I have a DirecTV and if it's an all day event say silver day, sometimes they will just put something like silver day in 6 hr blocks and other time they will put the silver vender into blocks and HSN is the same way.
I have the direcTV's DVR and just 2 or 3 days ago it upgraded. On FoxNews awhile back, they were talking about DirecTV and said that in order to updates and to get to watch DirecTv, you will need thier DVRs.
The way I took it was once the change over takes place, that is when it will start. I'm not 100% sure on it, do to it's been awhile since I saw it. But I do recall them saying that Tivo will not work and that other companies will do the same, cuz it's more $$$$$ they make.
I'm going to send them an e-mail and ask if they are going to have away at some point so that you can edit showe that you record and I'll ask them about in the future will you need thier DVRs to record or if you can use any make of DVRs and the use of tivo
