At Team Summit 2004 we were given the first look at the upcoming Dishplayer-DVR 942 High Definition Digital Video Recorder.
As you may have seen over the past few weeks there was reports of a new Dual Tuner HD unit with 2 outputs, and it was rumored to be called the 922. Well this is the unit that has been rumored and it has been renamed to the 942 to go along with some new products which will be available later this year.
Unlike the rumors that were going around this unit will NOT output 2 HD signals to two seperate television televisions, instead it will output HD to TV 1 and SD to TV two.
The new 942 is smaller then the 942 and has a new look
The 942 has a display on front with LCD leds which shows you the mode the unit is in if the second tuner is in use as well as recording lights showing if a tuner is recording.
The rear of the unit has lots of connections as shown below.
The connections include a Antenna / Cable In Port, an stereo agile tuner output as well as composite video and audio outputs for tuner 2.
The Tuner 1 outputs include component Y/Pr/Pb outputs, analog audio, Digital Audio output and a DVI output.
The unit also has 2 Satellite Inputs which are DishPro plus compatable, a USB 2.0 port and a phone jack.
The big problem I have with the 942 is that the unit only has one over the air tuner. This means both TV's can not watch seperate over the air broadcasts at the same time, if someone tries to watch the Over the Air tuner and its in use they will get an error message telling them the tuner is in use.
If they keep it one OTA tuner they they need to add a function to let the user take control of the tuner. Some kind of popup screen saying something like "TV 2 would like to watch over the air programs, is this ok?" then if the person at TV one can answer yes, if that TV is off or the person is sleeping or the person on TV 1 gives no reply to the message they control of over the air is given to TV2.
Again the best thing to do would be add a second OTA tuner.
The unit is much like the 522 and is based off the 522 software. The 942 unit we saw was one of the first units made and I was told that they just got the unit working 2 days before the show. It was kind of cool seeing the first unit, it was even painted on the pack showing that the unit was not for sale.
One of the nice features of the unit is you can watch HD broadcasts on your SD televisions. So now you can enjoy Hockey on HD net on your SD set. You can also record HD programs on the DVR and play them back on TV2 (the SD set)
While there are no plans yet to add the Dish Network Multimedia Center to the software we hope they would implement this feature on the 942 so you can share music and pictures in two rooms, and plus you can view photos in hi resolution on your HDTV.
I believe that the 942 will replace the 921 when it is released. I would like a 942 except that the OTA problem makes the 942 a half baked idea. I also wish you could send HD signals to the second television.
So there you have it, your first look at the 942 receiver! Thanks for visiting SatelliteGuys.US!
As you may have seen over the past few weeks there was reports of a new Dual Tuner HD unit with 2 outputs, and it was rumored to be called the 922. Well this is the unit that has been rumored and it has been renamed to the 942 to go along with some new products which will be available later this year.
Unlike the rumors that were going around this unit will NOT output 2 HD signals to two seperate television televisions, instead it will output HD to TV 1 and SD to TV two.
The new 942 is smaller then the 942 and has a new look
The 942 has a display on front with LCD leds which shows you the mode the unit is in if the second tuner is in use as well as recording lights showing if a tuner is recording.
The rear of the unit has lots of connections as shown below.
The connections include a Antenna / Cable In Port, an stereo agile tuner output as well as composite video and audio outputs for tuner 2.
The Tuner 1 outputs include component Y/Pr/Pb outputs, analog audio, Digital Audio output and a DVI output.
The unit also has 2 Satellite Inputs which are DishPro plus compatable, a USB 2.0 port and a phone jack.
The big problem I have with the 942 is that the unit only has one over the air tuner. This means both TV's can not watch seperate over the air broadcasts at the same time, if someone tries to watch the Over the Air tuner and its in use they will get an error message telling them the tuner is in use.
If they keep it one OTA tuner they they need to add a function to let the user take control of the tuner. Some kind of popup screen saying something like "TV 2 would like to watch over the air programs, is this ok?" then if the person at TV one can answer yes, if that TV is off or the person is sleeping or the person on TV 1 gives no reply to the message they control of over the air is given to TV2.
Again the best thing to do would be add a second OTA tuner.
The unit is much like the 522 and is based off the 522 software. The 942 unit we saw was one of the first units made and I was told that they just got the unit working 2 days before the show. It was kind of cool seeing the first unit, it was even painted on the pack showing that the unit was not for sale.
One of the nice features of the unit is you can watch HD broadcasts on your SD televisions. So now you can enjoy Hockey on HD net on your SD set. You can also record HD programs on the DVR and play them back on TV2 (the SD set)
While there are no plans yet to add the Dish Network Multimedia Center to the software we hope they would implement this feature on the 942 so you can share music and pictures in two rooms, and plus you can view photos in hi resolution on your HDTV.
I believe that the 942 will replace the 921 when it is released. I would like a 942 except that the OTA problem makes the 942 a half baked idea. I also wish you could send HD signals to the second television.
So there you have it, your first look at the 942 receiver! Thanks for visiting SatelliteGuys.US!