Allen13331 wrote:
2oldman wrote:
Gdetrailer wrote:
The work around most likely is to keep power on the receiver once it has acquired a sat.
Yep, we've determined that it is.
The major problem with that solution is that you will be driving around with the hard drive spinning ( I assume) which makes the hard drive much more susceptible to damage. When the DVR is powered down the heads for the hard drive are "parked" so they don't get damaged. I don't know if the hard drive spins down when you are not actually watching a program, but I know it would fire up if you had a scheduled program to record while you were driving. I know because I have damaged a couple of drives doing this. When you get to be 60 you learn a few things along the way. My college degrees in electronics and computer scuence helped me to understand why it happened but not til after the second one, so I must be a slow learner. ;-)
I recall a setting to have the DVR go into "sleep mode" after a certain number of hours of non-activity (default = 4 hours?) which probably idles the disc drive (if you have good hearing, you can tell whether or not they are spinning). Also, modern disc drives are less susceptible to failure due to physical movement, jostling, etc. than older designs.
