โJun-04-2009 08:19 AM
โOct-24-2009 07:57 AM
kjburns wrote:
Dish has a USB port that can be used with an external hard drive. They charge $40 to "activate" the external drive service. It's a one time fee. The typical hour long SD show is using about 800mb, so the 1TB external drive should hold almost 1200 hours of SD programming.
Unfortunately, the format seems to be proprietary so you can't just plug the external drive into a computer and transfer shows to the computer. But, the external drive will work with other receivers, so I can put a receiver in the motorhome, attach the hard drive and a pretty vast library of programming.
If I do want to transfer programming to a computer, I use a Hava (similar to Slingbox). Hava has the ability to record and burn to DVD. My wife was in the hospital for 32 days. I transferred shows to a laptop and brought it to her, with a set of headphones. It made the down time a lot more bearable for her.
โOct-24-2009 06:50 AM
โOct-23-2009 10:52 PM
kjburns wrote:
I removed a DirecTV receiver and installed a Dish Network receiver. It took a few minutes a works like a champ. My wife *really* likes the external hard drive option on the Dish receiver. She records a lot of shows and was constantly running out of disk space. A 1TB external drive cured that problem.
โOct-23-2009 07:26 PM
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โOct-23-2009 06:40 AM
โOct-23-2009 04:03 AM
PPCLI-Jim wrote:
I come here and looked at what you guys have doing constantly, I havent been able to do anything more then think about my rig for 8 months. BUT I am finally on my way home from Afghanistan after 8 months of being away,right now I am in Cypress 3 days away from being home and truly looking forward to taking the rig out for camping. Things are finally looking up , it was a long hot dusty time but now I can relax.
โOct-23-2009 03:20 AM
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โOct-22-2009 03:55 AM
โOct-22-2009 03:49 AM
PPCLI-Jim wrote:
I come here and looked at what you guys have doing constantly, I havent been able to do anything more then think about my rig for 8 months. BUT I am finally on my way home from Afghanistan after 8 months of being away,right now I am in Cypress 3 days away from being home and truly looking forward to taking the rig out for camping. Things are finally looking up , it was a long hot dusty time but now I can relax.
โOct-21-2009 08:23 PM
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