External Hard Drives & Genie (HR34)

[j_met]

I have been a Dish Network customer for about 10 years. With the Dish 922K receiver, you can attach an external hard drive via USB to expand your recording capacity. Can you do the same with Direct TVs Genie?

Also, what video connections are on the back of the receiver and how many? Reason I ask is currently I have the main TV connected to the receiver via component and then have a 50' HDMI cable running to the second TV in the bedroom. Then a 3rd display is connected via coax.

TV 1 and 2 display the same picture but, I am ok with that. This works great for me as I don't need to lease an additional receiver and can still have 3 TVs connected and watch different programming on different TV at same time

[Iceberg]

I have been a Dish Network customer for about 10 years. With the Dish 922K receiver, you can attach an external hard drive via USB to expand your recording capacity. Can you do the same with Direct TVs Genie?

yes but it replaces the internal one. it is associated with the receiver so if the HR34 craps out and gets replaced you lose everything on that hard drive

Also, what video connections are on the back of the receiver and how many? Reason I ask is currently I have the main TV connected to the receiver via component and then have a 50' HDMI cable running to the second TV in the bedroom. Then a 3rd display is connected via coax.

no coax but the rest (HDMI, Component, composite, s-video)

TV 1 and 2 display the same picture but, I am ok with that. This works great for me as I don't need to lease an additional receiver and can still have 3 TVs connected and watch different programming on different TV at same time

you do realize that the Genie (HR34) the video output is the same on all TV's so you'd see the same thing on all TV's attached to it? (unless you get the client receivers for other TV's)

[j_met]

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no coax but the rest (HDMI, Component, composite, s-video)


you do realize that the Genie (HR34) the video output is the same on all TV's so you'd see the same thing on all TV's attached to it? (unless you get the client receivers for other TV's)

ok I can use a HDMI splitter between TV 2 & 3 to work around not having coax....

What about remotes? I have a total of 3 remotes now with 2 of them being on the same "address"...that way I can control tv 1&2 with separate remotes and 1 is a IR the other is the the kind that works through walls.

[Iceberg]

The Genie uses either IR or RF (but not both) so you could set up 3 remotes for RF. I did that a while ago when I had the bedroom TV hooked up to the main setup

But again....this isnt like Dish where you have TV1 & TV2 and the option to watch two different programs. Directv its the same on all TV's (there is only one output)

But yes you can use a HDMI splitter

[inazsully]

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I'm not sure why with "E" the EHD supplements the DVR's internal hard drive and with "D" the EHD cancels the internal hard drive but this seems like a major drawback to the Directv's DVR's. This is the one single reason I cannot switch to "D". In today's world of high tech electronics this seems like an easily rectifiable situation. Who wouldn't want to ad 2TB of external hard drive space for a hundred bucks. Come on "D". I would switch to the HR34 in a heart beat except for this drawback.

[raoul5788]

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I'm not sure why with "E" the EHD supplements the DVR's internal hard drive and with "D" the EHD cancels the internal hard drive but this seems like a major drawback to the Directv's DVR's. This is the one single reason I cannot switch to "D". In today's world of high tech electronics this seems like an easily rectifiable situation. Who wouldn't want to ad 2TB of external hard drive space for a hundred bucks. Come on "D". I would switch to the HR34 in a heart beat except for this drawback.

Most agree with you that it's a foolish way to set up the ehd, but that's what it is. I don't understand why that would be the deciding factor to not switch. I don't think of the hd, external or not, as long term storage, so the size isn't that important to me.