Music through an inverter on your television

[DeeReed]

Someone told me that if I can't get radio reception while traveling in an RV then I could play music through my TV that I've pre-recorded on Direct TV. They didn't know if Dish Net worked this way.

[DeeReed]

You all are giving me great info. Thanks. I don't think I'm going to try this.

[SCVJeff]

Hard drives are hard drives, and one is not optimized for one use over another. Its all data. If you want reliable read or write speed considering its streaming data, you simply install a 10,000rpm generic drive.

[beemerphile1]

Seems like a Rube Goldberg way of listening to music.

We get our music one of two ways;
XM satellite radio which has excellent reception
Ipad music library fed through the radio

[wa8yxm]

Actually there is such a thing as a "Video Hard Drive" I forget who makes it.. but it is a hard drive optimised for use in Video recorders and for playing Video on computers.. Other than that it is a standard hard drive and yes it can be used for any computer storage programs, data (Video is just data to a computer) and the like.

The biggest issue I see with playing music through the TV is many TV's are interlocked in RV's. and will not play period when driving,, Of course a bit of re-cabling and you can use the dash radio to play the music off the DVR, Also, in my house I can play it via the house radio/"Home Theater" system using the inverter. In short, I have a lot of options. You likely do too.

Another option is to play other recorded music while driving,, I have hundreds of hours of assorted format recordings here. MP3,, CD,, MiniDisc (You wont find many of those any more) and even Cassette. (Can not play in Motor Home at this time but can in car).

But then I like Music.

On a good portion of the freeway Pandora and my Smart phone work.. Not so much off the freeway.

[docj]

GordonThree wrote:

This is because the DVR uses a mechanical hard disk drive to store the recordings... but it's not like a laptop drive that is designed to take some rough and tumble. It is a video drive, designed to run for 1000s of hours without complaint.

Hard drives are all the same. There is no such thing as a video hard drive. In fact, the new line of DirecTV DVRs uses easy to replace hard drives that are exactly the same as those in laptops. We leave our DVR running all the time and, after >30,000 miles of full-timing we have had no problems whatsoever.

[DeeReed]

GordonThree wrote:
Possible, but you could easily wreck your DVR using it while driving. My HOPPER and the VIP922 DVR it replaced both have stern warnings right on the receiver to NOT MOVE while plugged in, and the manual goes into more detail.

This is because the DVR uses a mechanical hard disk drive to store the recordings... but it's not like a laptop drive that is designed to take some rough and tumble. It is a video drive, designed to run for 1000s of hours without complaint.

Pandora is cool, but Google Music all-access is cooler. I have both, and use both regularly, but I'll be using Google on my upcoming off-grid road trip because it gives you unlimited downloads. I can pick all the artists, albums, or songs I like and save them to my phone (32gb phone can hold 100s of hours.) Once I drop off the grid, the music I downloaded keeps playing now from the phone's memory instead of streaming from the cell towers.

Wow. Great info.

[GordonThree]

Possible, but you could easily wreck your DVR using it while driving. My HOPPER and the VIP922 DVR it replaced both have stern warnings right on the receiver to NOT MOVE while plugged in, and the manual goes into more detail.

This is because the DVR uses a mechanical hard disk drive to store the recordings... but it's not like a laptop drive that is designed to take some rough and tumble. It is a video drive, designed to run for 1000s of hours without complaint.

Pandora is cool, but Google Music all-access is cooler. I have both, and use both regularly, but I'll be using Google on my upcoming off-grid road trip because it gives you unlimited downloads. I can pick all the artists, albums, or songs I like and save them to my phone (32gb phone can hold 100s of hours.) Once I drop off the grid, the music I downloaded keeps playing now from the phone's memory instead of streaming from the cell towers.

[DeeReed]

mbopp wrote:
What media would you be recording on? CD? DVD? Thumb drive? iPod? Or are you bringing the whole DVR?

Sorry, I didn't ask this. Guess it's an important consideration.

[Pool]

I used to do this with VHS tapes

[docj]

If you have a DirecTV DVR you ought to be able to record the music channels, although I've never tried it. We stream Pandora on a smart phone while driving.

[mbopp]

What media would you be recording on? CD? DVD? Thumb drive? iPod? Or are you bringing the whole DVR?