Don’t come out with an app store if your device can’t support apps!
I’m looking at you DirectTV
I have two DirectTV HR21 DVR’s. DirecTV, reacting to the new trend of “app stores” decided to add this to the OS on this device. The feature is in beta, and has been since an update in June. The problem is, the HR21 is not suited to running “apps.” The screen resolution of its on-screen display is too low, the device is way way too slow and this “feature” is unusable and I suspect slowing the box down for other things.
It is a sad state of affairs that the device that is driving a 1080P HD display can display moving video in full 1080P, but can’t render on-screen displays that look any better than they did 5 years ago.
I love DirectTV, but every day the HR21 and their ilk (the high end of their equipment I may add) gets more and more long in the tooth. I wish DirectTV would focus on new set-top boxes rather than adding an app-store to a device that is not capable of driving any apps that are worth anything.