That's what I always thought, but HDinTX claims otherwise. Did we miss something with a previous software version? I looked at the menu screen in question and it provides no explanation of itself at all, but surely if it was intended to control an analog recording device there would be somewhere to set up IR codes rather than just turn the feature on or off. But I never looked at it in previous versions, because I had always read it was just for the PocketDish.
[rant] Dish has this ridiculous inability to document their own software, or even provide sane user interface design. For example, not telling us what an External Recording Device is supposed to be. For another example, giving "air, cable, hrc, irc" options in the input setup screen, leading us to believe that they might have the ability to record analog or QAM channels when they don't. If this setting is for the RF output format, it should be in the output channel selection screen. If it's not, what's it doing in the software in the first place? [/rant]