Any word on 222K EHD yet?

[DishSubLA]

Agreeing with DishSub on this one. I'm sure they would love to do it, but there is no way right now they could do 4 stream record and 1 stream playback via USB 2.0. I suppose that this might be more of a possibility on EA, because of MPEG4, but once you bring in OTA locals, those are full bandwidth MPEG2 streams and they can't change that. They could do 2 streams via the sat tuners and ignore OTA for DVR functions, but my guess is that they will not do it at all because of the technical limitations. I would imagine upcoming boxes will have eSATA and even USB 3.0 as the chipsets become cheaper. Personally, I would be happy if they made the internal SATA bay a removable tray for all receivers... Want a DVR, add your own internal drive. That would be lovely.

Yes, I was thinking of the future of USB 3.0, as well. Your idea about a bay for the drive is a good one, too. Well, anything that would allow us the same experience as the internal HDD models.

AFAIK, even the 922 will be limited to USB 2.0. Although, that model doesn't need recording to external hard drive, but still, USB 2.0's days were beginning to be numbered when the 922 was designed. Why or why cheap out on a Power User box? They could have provided both USB 2.0 and eSATA. Video transfer should be faster with eSATA than USB 2.0.

[DishSubLA]

The terrible irony is that we would all be enjoying full DVR functionality on our 222 and 222K boxes today if Dish had just made the decision to bite the bullet and used eSATA for this feature. We all could have purchased My Books or other HDD's with both connections to allow us to put our external HDD on exclusive USB 2.0 archival use with internal HDD boxes or eSATA for exclusive duty for 2, potentially 4, tuner recording to external HDD from the 222 and 222K. Geez! Direc TV and TiVo and Moxi HD and even cable co. boxes went with eSATA, but not Dish. Is anyone else sobbing?