Hi all -
signed up for the forum JUST so I could throw this question out there : ) . Sorry - I usually try to research more first, but I'm a bit surprised on this one so I had to ask - here's the deal:
I recently upgraded my receiver to the 100 hour DVR variety (the 510 I believe) - I have been extremely happy with all the new available options it's afforded me in the couch potato realm - pause live tv, rewind, easy tapeless recording, etc... - EXCEPT for 1 : - ) (knew that was coming huh)
This thing uses a standard IDE hard drive for recording, and obviously runs it's own little operating system (evidenced by the ability to display back to the user the data contained on the drive - shows you've recorded - stuff like that) - yet they didn't think it prudent to include a standard RJ-45 jack (ethernet network connection) on the back???
So if i understand it right, i have up to 100 hours of recording - which is awesome by the way - BUT....once i fill up that drive - if i want to move my shows from the Dish DVR and archive them to DVD say....thereby freeing up all the space on my Dish DVR drive WITHOUT losing what i've already recorded, i only have a couple of options at this time:
1 - pull the drive out (which voids my warranty i'm sure) - place it in my PC and copy all the data over to my computer system - put the drive back in the DVR
2 - use those old, dinosaur (jurassic period, i believe) RCA audio / video outs on the back to manually "play back" and "record" my programming into my computer via video/audio capture cards - (YUCK : ) - so i'd have to sit thru all that programming again i guess...
but if these things had an ethernet port on the back, i could just browse for the DVR across my network, drag all my files over to my PC across the network - and bam i'm done - ready to burn DVDz - i spoke with one of the tech guys at dish, and he said that it records the video in standard MPEG format files - if i'm not mistaken, all you would have to do if you had network access to the DVR is pull those puppies off your drive - bam now you're drive's all free and clean again - and burn DVD content to your heart's delight
ok so now after this extremely long and drawn out post (sorry) - does this bother anyone else and does anyone know what i can do to remedy it? is dish coming out with any network accessible DVR's any time soon?
i'm not 100% sure but i believe Replay TV already offers this functionality, and it seems like someone told me they thought Tivo did as well???
i appreciate any light anyone could throw on this subject 4 me
signed up for the forum JUST so I could throw this question out there : ) . Sorry - I usually try to research more first, but I'm a bit surprised on this one so I had to ask - here's the deal:
I recently upgraded my receiver to the 100 hour DVR variety (the 510 I believe) - I have been extremely happy with all the new available options it's afforded me in the couch potato realm - pause live tv, rewind, easy tapeless recording, etc... - EXCEPT for 1 : - ) (knew that was coming huh)
This thing uses a standard IDE hard drive for recording, and obviously runs it's own little operating system (evidenced by the ability to display back to the user the data contained on the drive - shows you've recorded - stuff like that) - yet they didn't think it prudent to include a standard RJ-45 jack (ethernet network connection) on the back???
So if i understand it right, i have up to 100 hours of recording - which is awesome by the way - BUT....once i fill up that drive - if i want to move my shows from the Dish DVR and archive them to DVD say....thereby freeing up all the space on my Dish DVR drive WITHOUT losing what i've already recorded, i only have a couple of options at this time:
1 - pull the drive out (which voids my warranty i'm sure) - place it in my PC and copy all the data over to my computer system - put the drive back in the DVR
2 - use those old, dinosaur (jurassic period, i believe) RCA audio / video outs on the back to manually "play back" and "record" my programming into my computer via video/audio capture cards - (YUCK : ) - so i'd have to sit thru all that programming again i guess...
but if these things had an ethernet port on the back, i could just browse for the DVR across my network, drag all my files over to my PC across the network - and bam i'm done - ready to burn DVDz - i spoke with one of the tech guys at dish, and he said that it records the video in standard MPEG format files - if i'm not mistaken, all you would have to do if you had network access to the DVR is pull those puppies off your drive - bam now you're drive's all free and clean again - and burn DVD content to your heart's delight
ok so now after this extremely long and drawn out post (sorry) - does this bother anyone else and does anyone know what i can do to remedy it? is dish coming out with any network accessible DVR's any time soon?
i'm not 100% sure but i believe Replay TV already offers this functionality, and it seems like someone told me they thought Tivo did as well???
i appreciate any light anyone could throw on this subject 4 me
