Any Chancew Hard coded internal drives will ends soon?

[Altaman]

Being that you can now buy a HD receiver and add an external drive to get PVR functionality, what do you think are the chances of Dish removing the hard coding of internal drives?

The biggest problem I see with hard coding is that if a drive goes bad you have to send it back for a refurb...Me I would sooner replaced the drive than send in a perfect piece of hardware that just needs a new drive. Also as hard drive sizes are getting bigger it is a p*ss off to be locked into 30 hours of HD!

Alt

 

[TheKrell]

If you are talking about the way disks were married to receivers in the Dish PVR 50x days, those days have thankfully long gone. You can swap out one drive for another (off an approved list) on newer receivers, and it will simply reformat and go. So, at our own expense, we can indeed change out drives and keep our new not refurb'd equipment. Getting Dish to send us a bare drive to do this ourselves would sure be nice. But people competent to do that are a vanishingly small percentage of Dish customers, I would imagine.

If, on the other hand, you are referring to hard-coding only certain disk model numbers into the firmware, I'm with you on that one. What a dumb idea! I've got two VIP612s with completely inadequate disks. I would dearly love to perform surgery on the both of them to fix that nonsense.

 

[Jim5506]

I don't think Dish wants common amateurs working on their receivers, they would rather use their own amateurs at the refurb facility.

 

[KAB]

I don't think Dish wants common amateurs working on their receivers, they would rather use their own amateurs at the refurb facility.

 

[DishSubLA]

I don't think Dish wants common amateurs working on their receivers, they would rather use their own amateurs at the refurb facility.

OK. That was funny.

 

[David_Levin]

I don't think Dish wants common amateurs working on their receivers, they would rather use their own amateurs at the refurb facility.

Yep. There are a number of reasons Dish hard codes hard drive models, and not many reasons for them not to.

Most receivers are leased. They don't want to give you a reason to open it up.

They'll also say they can only guarantee compatibility of the tested drive models.

I agree, it would be nice if they didn't do this. But, I don't see this changing.

 

[gadgtfreek]

OK. That was funny.

It was. I think KAB's rolleyes button is stuck, its all he uses.