Anyone know when this will be available to current subscribers and how much it will be?
Supposed to be February 9th, YMMV.
Anyone know when this will be available to current subscribers and how much it will be?
Hey All-
New to the forum, just signed up with DirecTV/Centurylink because of how bad Comcast sucks at everything they do/don't do.
Anyways, I was told I'd get this new HR34 and wondered a few things.
1) I sense this is the case, but technically, if I record a movie onto the DVR, is it illegal to then backup that movie to my personal drive. My reason for this is that it seems easy for the DVR to mess up/get reset and lose all data, and that really sucks.
2) Regardless of the legality of #1, is it possible to backup saved movies/tv shows/etc to an external drive or (if networked appropriately) to copy them over to network storage?
Thanks,
Sleepraider
For DirecTv DVR's, if you attach an EHD it will replace the onboard HDD. You cannot record to the onboard HDD and then move the recording to the EHD.
In addition, the programs that are recorded on the external drive are ONLY accessable from the receiver that they were recorded on. I.E. you can't move the drive to another one of your DVR's and access the recorded content. So, in short, there is no way to "back up" your recorded content. This is one area that Dish really shines in. I wish that DirecTV would do like wise, instead of marrying the recorded content to a specific receiver, they should just marry it to the account.
bobvick-Dish will allow you to move content from the internal HDD to an external HDD and vice versa. DirecTV does not offer this option.
With Dish you can move the external drive from DVR A to DVR B, and so on, because the content on the disk is tied to the account.
DirecTV does not offer this with their external drive option. The content on the external disk is tied to the receiver. If your receiver craps out and you have to get another, all of the content on the disk is lost.
You can record to a DVD from the DVR, but it would have to be in SD from the composite out.
There is no way to stream to a computer, or from a computer for that matter.
I believe you can access photos and some other multimedia content from your computer on the DVR.
DIRECTV equipment doesn't do SMB network shares. You need to abandon all hope of that.so I can get my DVR to read a share on an network drive and play that, but have no way to share that content anywhere else.
harshness-
That's actually great to know. Turns out, I'm a 5 year linux user- so can I just take out the drive after DVR'ing something, copy to another external drive, and throw it back in the box? That seems simple? Anyone play with this to determine if VLC (or another player) can play the files, given the right codecs?
BTW, if I can backup everything, I can find another workaround to play the media on the computer. That's not a problem.
I was thinking about using Mythbuntu back before I decided to switch to DirecTV anyways.