the "I now have a hopper 3 and I have questions" thread

[xfoneguy]

Yes but how do you get to it on the H3?

from the DVR view, select OPTIONS, then MANAGE RECORDINGS - select recordings you want to work with, then "transfer to hard drive" - that info is all there,

 

[n0qcu]

here it is

 

[xfoneguy]

here it isView attachment 113917

and this is what you will see

 

[Almighty1]

from the DVR view, select OPTIONS, then MANAGE RECORDINGS - select recordings you want to work with, then "transfer to hard drive" - that info is all there,

Ah, that explains why I never found it since I didn't have any recordings on the H3 yet and the transfer to hard drive is greyed out as I need to select recordings first.

 

[xfoneguy]

Yes but how do you get to it on the H3 as I couldn't find it on the H3? The only thing that even mentions the External HD is when you hit the options button after selecting the External Hard Drive using the Sources option in the DVR menu.

this from the DVR menu button

 

[Almighty1]

here it isView attachment 113917

Looks like the Hopper 3 still limits the usable storage to 1.2TB instead of the full 2TB.

 

[xfoneguy]

Ah, that explains why I never found it since I didn't have any recordings on the H3 yet and the transfer to hard drive is greyed out as I need to select recordings first.

sorry - i had to correct my post as i omitted a step

 

[xfoneguy]

Looks like the Hopper 3 still limits the usable storage to 1.2TB instead of the full 2TB.

Yep!! I'm 1/2 full and have just over 350g - clean up day today

 

[Almighty1]

this from the DVR menu button

I know, the thing is, until you have recordings that you can select which I don't yet, the Transfer to HD will be greyed out.

 

[xfoneguy]

I know, the thing is, until you have recordings that you can select which I don't yet, the Transfer to HD will be greyed out.

yes - that is true - I just assumed if you had the H3 that you had recordings LOL

 

[n0qcu]

Looks like the Hopper 3 still limits the usable storage to 1.2TB instead of the full 2TB.

That will never change as DISH uses that space for the OS and VOD channel 501 and the localized commercials they insert

 

[Almighty1]

LOL, normally that would be the case but I've been spending my time trying to transfer the remaining recordings to the EHD from the H2K after the H3 was installed on 02/07/2016. I did record but have deleted it as soon as I watched it.

 

[Almighty1]

That will never change as DISH uses that space for the OS and VOD channel 501 and the localized commercials they insert

Does it really need the 600GB of space for that or does it actually use less? I imagine that tuner buffering uses it as well. I always thought localized commercials came directly to the screen via satellite, never knew it was stored on the HD.

 

[Hall]

Localized commercials are probably tiny, in the grand scheme of things. They're SD for one and two, there's only a few of them, in my experience. They're also going to be small considering they're only 30-60 seconds long.

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[Almighty1]

I think all the mentioned things are tiny compared to the 600GB of space that is not available to the user as the formatted capacity is a little more than 1.8TB based on 1024 and not 1000.

 

[Hall]

Have to remember that Dish used to emphasize "x hours of HD recordings" or "y hours of SD recordings" and not the capacity of the drive. Also, unless one connects an external HDD, you'd never know how much space was utilized or "available".

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[Almighty1]

I always thought in the commercials and marketing, they always claimed 2TB, the largest capacity in the industry for a DVR, more than any competitor then like you said, it mentions the hours of recordings and then I read somewhere that it's 500gb for user, 500gb for PTAT, 1TB reserved for Dish except I don't have PTAT recordings and I seemed to have used up 93% of the 1.2TB for SD Recordings on the H2K, did they actually change it so the entire 1TB is available to the user instead of just 500GB?

 

[patmurphey]

All the angst over unavailable space! The other providers just keep theirs secret...

 

[gadgtfreek]

When you use an EHD you have 1.5 + 1.8

 

[patmurphey]

I always thought in the commercials and marketing, they always claimed 2TB, the largest capacity in the industry for a DVR, more than any competitor then like you said, it mentions the hours of recordings and then I read somewhere that it's 500gb for user, 500gb for PTAT, 1TB reserved for Dish except I don't have PTAT recordings and I seemed to have used up 93% of the 1.2TB for SD Recordings on the H2K, did they actually change it so the entire 1TB is available to the user instead of just 500GB?

Don't know where you got those numbers. About 1.25 TB is available for user recording on the Hopper 3 (and all Hoppers). PTAT, if fully used, 8 days of 4 channels for 3 hours of HD recording, leaves about 1 TB available.