Dumb question of the morning... I can't remember seeing if the 622 will support 1 drive only? or can you powered hub 2 drives to the system and choose where to archive to and play off
External HDD feature for ViP622 and ViP722: coming 8/15: $39.99
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I believe that video Scott posted from CES said they were working to make it support up to 4 drives at a time, but I don't know if this was just wishful thinking or not. I will be happy to switch them out myself. Lets just get it activated!!!
If they increase the size of the user recordable partition on the 722 it would be a huge difference. When I travel I usually have to go through my timers and change the OTA HD to LiL satellite compressed on a lot of shows to prevent the disk from filling up when I am gone. OTA HD really uses up the disk space.
One more time- no additional monthly fee. Presumably it would become a DVR and have the standard DVR fee.
And, maybe December.
Does anyone have any figures on how many 622's have been sold so far? Cause it would be interesting to see what 10% of those at 39.95 would mean for Charlie and the Boards' Christmas Bonus. 
Absolutely no complaining or whining here. I am just curious to see what the amount might be. Also, I will probably enable as soon as it is activated because I have a 250GB external drive just waiting and plans for a Windows Home Server with 1TB of storage once they get that all setup. The only thing I would be upset about is if they charged another fee for enabling the TCP/IP archiving to a Windows Home Server computer. Then I would replace my 525 with a 222 as long as it was able to watch shows from the server.
Absolutely no complaining or whining here. I am just curious to see what the amount might be. Also, I will probably enable as soon as it is activated because I have a 250GB external drive just waiting and plans for a Windows Home Server with 1TB of storage once they get that all setup. The only thing I would be upset about is if they charged another fee for enabling the TCP/IP archiving to a Windows Home Server computer. Then I would replace my 525 with a 222 as long as it was able to watch shows from the server.
I don't think you have to worry about a fee for enabling archiving to a Windows Home Server or any computer. I don't think we're going to see that function from Dish. Ever.
However, I do expect the Dish ViP666 to act as a whole house entertainment server.
However, I do expect the Dish ViP666 to act as a whole house entertainment server.
I would love to know what drives are going to be compatible so I can order it. Much cheaper online vs. the "big" stores.
I usually just sit back and enjoy the reading, but the $40 includes all dvrs you have in the house, plus the drive will work so you can interchange recordings. It very well could've been $19.95 / per receiver and not be interchangeable making you buy 2 ext drives.
just my 0.02
just my 0.02
About the unnecessarily high $40...like it or not, everyone interested enough to read and post to this thread will fork out the two Jacksons. We're all gadget heads here.
What I haven't seen yet (I could have missed it), is there a definitive answer on if we can use our own external HDD or will we need to buy a Dish external HDD? As for using TCP/IP for external storage, I don't see why you can't get a USB/Ethernet adapter (assuming you can use any HDD). Does anyone know if this would work? Could you go from USB to Ethernet (via adapter), then to a router w/ USB (like Apple Airport Extreme), then to an external HDD/network drive connected to router via USB?
What I haven't seen yet (I could have missed it), is there a definitive answer on if we can use our own external HDD or will we need to buy a Dish external HDD? As for using TCP/IP for external storage, I don't see why you can't get a USB/Ethernet adapter (assuming you can use any HDD). Does anyone know if this would work? Could you go from USB to Ethernet (via adapter), then to a router w/ USB (like Apple Airport Extreme), then to an external HDD/network drive connected to router via USB?
For sure for now, any 500GB drive, preferably 16MB cache. We have still yet to get confirmation on how much bigger or smaller. My guess would be 300-750GB. After a little research, I've decided on this one:
WD Caviar SE16 500 GB SATA Hard Drives ( WD5000AAKS )
(not buying from WD) Use pricegrabber of pricewatch.
You still have three to four weeks.
I agree. I do ike the fact you can move it over to the external for storage, and then move it back to watch. This will help if the external drive is slow and cannot keep up with transmitting hd video while watching.
I could have sworn someone said that it will support any usb hdd. (edit: scott just confirmed it)
This is the one Im getting, will look great sitting next to my PS3
. 320 gig is only $109.Seagate Technology - FreeAgent™ Desktop 500-GB USB 2.0 Drive
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The video Scott posted (from CES?) stated you could attach 4, 1.5TB drives to your 622 for storage, for a total of 6TB.
As long as DISH has kept us waiting, you can't really say it's early..................and we're still chomping at the bit.
No. How could an MPEG-2 receiver decode an MPEG-4 show? And there would be no reason to transcode a MPEG-4 show into MPEG-2 while storing it externally. That would just waste space.
Anyway, the feature only works with the ViP622/722, both are MPEG-4 boxes.
"As for using TCP/IP for external storage, I don't see why you can't get a USB/Ethernet adapter (assuming you can use any HDD). Does anyone know if this would work? Could you go from USB to Ethernet (via adapter), then to a router w/ USB (like Apple Airport Extreme), then to an external HDD/network drive connected to router via USB?"
Wouldn't it be nice if they let it work this way! I don't think we'll see it.
Don't forget, the HD will be formatted in a proprietary format.
Anyway, the feature only works with the ViP622/722, both are MPEG-4 boxes.
"As for using TCP/IP for external storage, I don't see why you can't get a USB/Ethernet adapter (assuming you can use any HDD). Does anyone know if this would work? Could you go from USB to Ethernet (via adapter), then to a router w/ USB (like Apple Airport Extreme), then to an external HDD/network drive connected to router via USB?"
Wouldn't it be nice if they let it work this way! I don't think we'll see it.
Don't forget, the HD will be formatted in a proprietary format.
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