IGN has details and pictures on the new DirecTV Plus HD DVR:
[W]hen does the HR20 finally come out and how much is it going to cost? DirecTV would not give us a firm date, but it did state that the unit will definitely be available in Q2 2006. “Really Q2, we swear,” a spokesperson told us. Meanwhile, we’re able to report some fantastic news for early adopters who picked up a DirecTV TiVo HD DVR. DirecTV reps confirmed to us today that the HR20 will be made available “completely free of charge” to select HD TiVo owners as soon as the former becomes available. By select, the company means owners who live in the PST or MT areas of the United States, as these regions will be the first to make the switch to MPEG-4 broadcasts. HD TiVo owners who live in other parts of the US can either wait a little longer for the same deal or purchase the HR20 for only $99 smackers. Brand new customers will pay approximately $200 for the device and will get a significant mail-in rebate, according to DirecTV.
But wait! There’s more. Thomas Hawk hung around the Microsoft booth and got word on some possible partnerships:
I got to talk to Matt Goyer a bit about some of the recent Microsoft announcements. Matt seemed very optimistic that we would in fact see HDTV via DirecTV for the Media Center sometime next year with Vista. This is the most exciting thing I’ve heard come out of CES yet. I was super excited when I heard that we would finally be getting premium HDTV with Media Center a few monts back but I’m even more excited about the possibility of things with DirecTV. DirecTV has recently launched a bunch of satellites and promises to bring much more HD content in the future. I really think that DirecTV will be positioned to be the king of HD content delivery next year and to see that they are now working with Microsoft and that we will see an HDTV DirecTV combo for Media Center is huge.
I’ll be looking at some Viiv PCs today and trying to get a hands-on look at the new DirecTV box and the new TiVo Series 3 gear. And of course I’ll be at the Media Center Show awards tonight.
Ed Bott 
Directv, the cable companies and MS are missing the boat here. The largest most pain for anyone with media center is the ridiculous wiring. You have to have the dish decoder with a cable in and a Cable out, the LED sensor, the Wireless USB connection and then 3 wires feeding to the back of a hard to access PC. Forget the HD card, Simply move the remote interface into the PC itself and get a card that regular Dish or cable can run right to. If MS wants media center to shine, that is what it needs. HDTV will not be a major player for a few years or longer. Directv cannot provide more than 3 or 4 HD channels to the majority of its cutomer base and the cable companies need to get rid of these huge poorly designed bulky boxes.