New Dish Customer ?

[janzy]

The Dish installer just left after installing 3 receivers, one of which is a vip612.
I am used to DirectTV and the external esata hard drive.
Is there anyway to add an external HD with Dish?
Thanks

 

[hyperguy]

Sure plug it into the usb port and call dish pay $40 to have the port activated and there you go

 

[KAB]

Be aware that the Dish EHD works differently than D*s.
It is for MOVING recordings to it from the receiver drive, and vice versa. You can not record directly to it (the either or principle) like D*. Unlike D* if you have any other VIP series DVR (622/722/722K), you can move the drive among them. And, it needs a USB drive.

 

[willie177]

since you did not say might not apply but if you have a 211K receiver you can add a EHD to it and turn it into a DVR also. On this unit you are recording to the EHD. You can not swap hard drives between this model and the 612 or 722 though

 

[garys]

And the recordings cannot be transfered to a pc for viewing either.

 

[JEFFinINDY]

Be aware that the Dish EHD works differently than D*s.
It is for MOVING recordings to it from the receiver drive, and vice versa. You can not record directly to it (the either or principle) like D*. Unlike D* if you have any other VIP series DVR (622/722/722K), you can move the drive among them. And, it needs a USB drive.

Actually, it looks like you can record directly to the external drive now. I haven't tried it yet, but after I enabled this feature in the RecordPlus preference, when I create a DVR timer now I can choose "Ext".

Unless this is something else entirely or unimplemented... but I never noticed this before. Anyone else try this?

 

[n0qcu]

the EXT setting is for recording to the pocketdish not an Hdd.

 

[JEFFinINDY]

the EXT setting is for recording to the pocketdish not an Hdd.

Aww.. bummer.