The clueless Dish guy in the video even said in his intro that it was a standard 222 with upgraded firmware.

All it appears to be is a standard 222 with the ethernet port enabled and has UPNP capability. The client box appears to be something running sageTV. At least that's what the logo at the bottom right indicates. It could be made by Pioneer (large logo in the middle of the screen) or certainly could be made by Echostar since they are now the hardware production side of Dish. Regardless, the remote client appears to be what has the hard drive inside and is doing the DVR / capturing. (unless there is a hard drive off camera somewhere). My bet is it's just receiving the stream and buffering / time shifting internally.

You could do that all yourself using Sage TV and direct video output. This is just a nice addition of doing the encoding in the Dish receiver and sending it out via IP based.



I'd be happy for them to just enable the ethernet port and add external hard drive / DVR capability.