Because there has to be a catch...there's always got to be a catch with E*...Why give us some great feature that we'd love to have when they can give us a watered down, brain-f**k version of the same feature...and charge us for it somehow...
Dish Archiving Solution better choice than Blue Ray/FireWire?
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Why would they make the 942 hard drives swappable being able to view the content from one to another but not the 522/625? I thought the 942 came out after the 522/625?
I would think that it would play back the data from the external hard drive instead of having to transfer it back to the internal hard drive. That would defeat the purpose of having an external hard drive to begin with if you have to erase the contents from your internal hard drive to play the content.
If the content is swappable on the 942's but the external hard drive has to playback on the original receiver then there would be something in the receiver itself that it is identifying.
I would think that it would play back the data from the external hard drive instead of having to transfer it back to the internal hard drive. That would defeat the purpose of having an external hard drive to begin with if you have to erase the contents from your internal hard drive to play the content.
If the content is swappable on the 942's but the external hard drive has to playback on the original receiver then there would be something in the receiver itself that it is identifying.
Stargazer said:
The 622 is the new HD-DVR being released "in the first quarter of 2006". They have reworked the product numbers again...
What is it with those dorks and their numbering scheme? 622 works with the 211/222, 411/422, etc numbering.. but it's dumb because now we have a 522, a 622, and a 625..
Too many 22s and such. They don't really mean anything either except 11/01/21 are associated with single output receivers and 22 and 24 and 25 are associated with dual output receivers.
Too many 22s and such. They don't really mean anything either except 11/01/21 are associated with single output receivers and 22 and 24 and 25 are associated with dual output receivers.
There USED to be logic behind the numbering scheme, and there was room for the MPEG-4 boxes to fit in it, but for some idiotic reason, E* didn't do it.OoTLink said:
Hmmm. I nominate that for understatement of the month.Stargazer said:
The thing that gets me is that E* has been forcing the highest numbered receiver to be the "Primary" when setting up a new account. No doubt that's gonna mess a BUNCH of things up starting next month.
Perhaps they should starting putting a letter in front of it if they want to prioritize the receivers.
I guess that is their solution just like when they made all DP receivers three digit model numbers instead of four. They must not have wanted to go with two digit models yet.
