Contemplating a switch to D* and have some questions about DirecTV DVRs. If you have the Whole House DVR service, can you have more than 1 DVR? If you do, can you view recorded events from any TV in the system? I am considering a setup with 2 HD DVRs and 1 or 2 more HD receivers. Is this a setup that would work? Can you view events from DVR1 on DVR2? View events from either DVR1 or DVR2 on one of the regular HD receivers?
one other question, I currently have 2 DVRs that support external hard drives. In this case the EHDs are add on drives (they do not replace the internal drive) and I can take the EHDs from receiver to . If I read other posts on EHDs correctly, this is not the case with D* DVRs. In this case, the EHD replaces the internal drive and, if you take the EHD to another receiver, it will get reformatted. I think I can live with that but here is one more little twist, I use a SATA Drive dock that support both USB and eSATA. Using this, I can swap out drives as I want. Can I do this with a D* DVR? That is, Have a drive in, record to it, Take it out of the dock, put a new drive in then later put the other drive back in an view it?
A lot of questions I know. I really like the hardware I have been using but other issues are making me seriously consider a switch.
thanks
one other question, I currently have 2 DVRs that support external hard drives. In this case the EHDs are add on drives (they do not replace the internal drive) and I can take the EHDs from receiver to . If I read other posts on EHDs correctly, this is not the case with D* DVRs. In this case, the EHD replaces the internal drive and, if you take the EHD to another receiver, it will get reformatted. I think I can live with that but here is one more little twist, I use a SATA Drive dock that support both USB and eSATA. Using this, I can swap out drives as I want. Can I do this with a D* DVR? That is, Have a drive in, record to it, Take it out of the dock, put a new drive in then later put the other drive back in an view it?
A lot of questions I know. I really like the hardware I have been using but other issues are making me seriously consider a switch.
thanks