newman -- can you expand on your statement? I'm not up to speed on all this hi-tech stuff. I have 'transferred' shows from the Hopper to the tablet but it takes forever and a day. And then I don't know how much the tablet with a 16GB sd card will hold. I think that for my tablet the 16GB is the max. size. Also, it appears that an internet connection is required to complete the transfers. Again, the 5GB data limit. I think the 'transfer' is actually done over the home network but the internet is still required to acquire the 'license' to view the stuff.