Recording on the Micro HD

[ZandarKoad]

The product page says that you can record two shows at once and watch a third. Can you record three shows as long as you are watching the third? Also, how is this possible? Is there more than one tuner or something in the MicroHD? How does it record two shows at once WHILE watching a third? I'm assuming you'd record to an external hard drive or USB jump drive.

 

[qwert1515]

You can record two shows and watch a third as long as they are on the same transponder.
You can not record the third show.

 

[KE4EST]

Yep has to be on the same bird and the same transponder. So for example on the RTV mux on 83W Ku, you could record RTV and TUFFTV while you watch PBJE.

 

[Mr Tony]

Yes you can record 2 shows and watch a 3rd as long as they are on the same transponder
You can record two shows and watch something from the hard drive too

from my review

Recording something is very easy and you can record two things at once as long as it’s the same transponder. If you try and record a 3rd you get a popup that says “Unable to record 3rd channel”. If you are recording something the receiver allows you to scroll through the other channels on the transponder (if there are some) but it wont let you move off that transponder. So as example when I was recording TuffTV the only channels I could go through using the up down arrows were PBJ & RTV. .

and the pics

 

[Mr Tony]

also you can set up timers to record 2 shows on same TP even if the times overlap
http://www.satelliteguys.us/fta-mpeg2-equipment-reviews/286849-geosatpro-micro-hd-2.html#post2895568

post 35 (the linked one), 36 & 39 have that info

 

[KE4EST]

^^^ This is what I like!

 

[Mr Tony]

the timer option?
Yeah I do too

 

[wallyhts]

Have you tired to the record reelz channel on c-band?

 

[Mr Tony]

Have you tired to the record reelz channel on c-band?

is there something wacky about it?

 

[KE4EST]

the timer option?
Yeah I do too

Yeah recording with over lapping times.

 

[wallyhts]

is there something wacky about it?

I think so because I can't record it with the dbs6000 and when i tried on the openbox s9 it worked 2 of 4 times.

 

[Mr Tony]

I'll have to try it tomorrow....too late to drag out the big dish (plus the mosquitoes would eat me alive)

 

[chaskuchar]

when you don't get any rain, you don't have mosquitoes. i am jealous... charlie

 

[Mr Tony]

during the day its hot out so none of them
at night they come out in full force and it sucks

 

[Corrado]

I have a stack of old recycled 3.5" IDE HDDs that I plan to try in my powered external enclosure for a DVR test with the micro to see how it works. Everything I've recorded using a USB stick worked great. I wanted to see if it keep up with some of the higher bitrate feeds that my Diamond won't without stuttering. If it works out, I'll leave it connected like my Dish EHD.