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Being that you can now buy a HD receiver and add an external drive to get PVR functionality, what do you think are the chances of Dish removing the hard coding of internal drives? The biggest problem I see with hard coding is that if a drive goes bad you have to send it back for a refurb...Me I...

Maybe I missed something out of all these pages, but can a person us a DPP-Twin LNB with the 500+? Have all this technology I use and it seems I end up with more & more LNB's (Legacy & DP). I mainly want the 500+ for the bigger size to reduce rainfade...Anyways inquiring minds want to know. Alt

Here is a link to format the 9200 (942 equiv) that may/should work! http://www.digitalhomecanada.com/forum/showpost.php?p=297242&postcount=11 Alt

Can some kind sould advise on how to format the HDD in the 042? I knew how to do it some time ago, but old age is catching up ;) Alt

If this is going to work the way I think it is the idea is 1/2 baked! First off you will copy your show(s) to the USB drive, now a week later you want to watch it. You now have to copy the show(s) back to the internal drive to watch. What if the internal drive is full? Why not allow a person...

Just for a little clarification here, while component outputs can easily handle 720p/1080i you are NEVER going to see this from the big name companies. A prime example are current upconverting DVD players, they only officially support upconverting over HDMI, component is 480 only (there are...

Funny I knew who the moderator was before I even checked it out ;) For some reason I never like it when he posts, seems he posts just for the sake of of it and to defend virtually everything Dish does. Now if he had read the post he quoted, you were not saying 720p was acceptable, but was the...

A little late, but have you tried doing a check switch? Alt

Well according to homestand it seems he has moved drives between two machines. You can read it here, it is post #31. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=6157361&&#post6157361 I personally have not tried it and won't until the proper cables/connectors get to me. Alt

Actually while I can't take the credit for the info, the information on what drives are in the firmware was originally supplied by the dishmod group on yahoo and I stumbed onto the info in the avsforum's. It is like pulling teeth finding the exact WD model # drive, however the Maxtor 7Y250M0...

Well I will tell you that my 9200 did that (sorta stuttering on fast moving scenes) and a bit later I got the infamous "0551-serious hard drive problem". Good luck! Alt

Well yesterday my 9200 (942 for the U.S. version) had the hard drive die in it after about 3 months and I have read of others who have gotten the dreaded 0551 error. I record over 20 events per week and lost quite a few shows I had not watched, not to mention having to setup timers, etc once the...

No the power inserter does not get installed at every receiver, it gets installed on port #1 of the DPP44 at the receiver side. Alt

Buy all my stuff from www.dishstore.net and they have always been good to me! Alt

Here is the thread on avsforum, I just passed along the info: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=550668 Alt

On avsforum there is a list of the approved drives, unfortunately they are all 250gig drives. Here is the lsit form there: WDC WD2500JB-55GVA1 WDC WD2500JB-57GVA1 WDC WD2500JD-57HBB1 ST3250823ACE ST3250823SCE WDC WD2500JD-55HBB1 Maxtor 7Y250M0 Maxtor 7Y250P0 anything else will...

Actually you would be amazed at how good the picture is. I have a PSP as well as a PPC with a 4" screen and watching either UMD movies or ripped movies look quite good. It is especially good on a long trip, you have something to pass the time. The 7" pocketdish would give an excellent viewing...

The 9200 has two Usb 2.0 ports that at this time are disabled. Once Dish enables the ports and allows extrenal drives in the firmware, it is simply a matter of adding the external drive. The catch here is not just enabling the ports, but is Dish going to go a locked format like they do with...

The consensus seems to be that watching sports in 720p is better than 1080i as 720p can display the fast motion much better than 1080i. Alt

It will not work installing just any drive into the 942, the firmware has a list builtin about the type of drives the machine will accept. Also I believe you have to get the OS over to the new drive as well. Dish does not make it easy for the enduser to upgrade the drive. What I would like to...

Well opened up my 9200 (942 to dish people) as being that it was a rainy day figured I would see what the drive is in the 9200. Well it is a WD2500JD 250 gig drive...I would have connected to my computer to take a look at the drive contents, but alas I do not have a SATA controller. Anyways...

Anyone hear of any update on when an external hard drive capability will be available for the 942? There was mention of by the end of summer and seeing as Autumn starts in about 2 weeks, we are getting close! With the new season now started more than 25 hrs of HD recording would really be...

Are you using the same inputs as the cable was using? Some sets have settings for individual inputs and if you are using say component with satellite and he was using coax with cable this could be why no problem was seen. I can not see it being the receiver as you have tried multiple ones. Alt

1) When will an external HD be available for the 942 2) Along with #1 above, why do they not allow us to add a bigger HD to our DVR's Alt

A couple Q's! Does the Dish 1000 allow you to get a stronger signal off 110/119 compared to the Dish 500? What kinda $$ are they looking at? Dishstore has been getting all my satellite $ where possible, no reason to stop now :) Alt