I believe Dish enabled DRM awhile back (probably the hold up on releasing the HDD archiving in the first place)
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Isn't DRM only effective on a few channels (the premiums) or is it actually active on everything?
Yep. I am pretty sure that I remember seeing on an uplink report that it was activated on the HBOs (and maybe more), but I don't think it is active everywhere else. But what do I know 
Just to ppl who want spend money for nothing - recently Dish tested water with new fee for enabling VOD space on your disk for your recordings !
Agree and Pay and you will have more features to pay More. Agree ?
- recently Dish tested water with new fee for enabling VOD space on your disk for your recordings ! Agree and Pay and you will have more features to pay More. Agree ?
They came up with the price by asking people what would be the max they would pay. (This is actually below what most people answered which I believe was $45)
Others may have external storage but they are not as feature packed as Dish Networks external storage. Look at DirecTV's external storage for the HR 20, it work yet it disables the hard drive built in to the HR 20.
Correct and incorrect. Only certain shows and moves have DRM turned on. Of course they wont tell us which ones are and which ones are not.
Ding ding ding... we have a winner
A few channels were holdiing things up and wanted to make sure their HD content was secure. As I said before I saw external storage working on Dish Network receivers 3 or 4 years ago. A lot of the delay was in contracts with programmers and making sure they are happy.
The point is, they still didn't have to charge that much, it's pure greed.
I thought that ALL E* content was recorded to the hdd using their encryption. So, attaching the external hdd to a PC via USB would result in the same copy difficulties that removing the internal hdd and attaching it to your PC via IDE/SATA would have.
Is that not the case?
Is that not the case?
If someone want to know, I'm sure there will be other one who could tell. Just need to find right person behind the wall in Co
.[Why ieSpell always asking to change your last name to Gretzky ? Do you have relatives up north ?
]Scott. Is the only One Hard Drive, or in theory could I buy one 750 GB drive and when i fill that up i buy another 750 GB drive. Is that possible with Dish's current configuration?
Now tell me DTV and CableCo have agreement with content providers from Mars/Moon/Venus ! One use eSATA, others FireWire WITHOUT fee and limits !
Just as a side note, i see people complaining about the price. Personally, I think it is well worth it. I don;t see the problem!
Then pay ! And be ready to pay more, for VOD space on your disk for start !
You pay for water in home, so there is will be fee for each faucet !
You pay for water in home, so there is will be fee for each faucet !
So if you dont like it dont order it. I don't know what else to tell you.
There are lots of R&D costs involved with this feature that MOST folks will not use. (Hell most folks who have an HDTV think they are watching HDTV even though they dont have any programming or tuner feeding their TV's HD)
In addition there will be an increase of support calls because of this feature.
This feature was created because of the requests of our hard core users.
I find it funny the ones who are upset about spending $40 onetime to turn this new feature on are some of the same folks telling us how they were going to build these multi terabyte HD libraries.
I could see complaints if it was a monthly fee, but for a one time setup fee it is really not to bad.
There are lots of R&D costs involved with this feature that MOST folks will not use. (Hell most folks who have an HDTV think they are watching HDTV even though they dont have any programming or tuner feeding their TV's HD)
In addition there will be an increase of support calls because of this feature.
This feature was created because of the requests of our hard core users.
I find it funny the ones who are upset about spending $40 onetime to turn this new feature on are some of the same folks telling us how they were going to build these multi terabyte HD libraries.
I could see complaints if it was a monthly fee, but for a one time setup fee it is really not to bad.
The idea is bad ! Milk money from nothing. "Enabling fee" - don't tell my about how it works and such R&D. Kids will write better SW.
I'm not that young and understand why you propagate Dish PR. Well, sorry but that's the price to be short with Charlie.
I'm not that young and understand why you propagate Dish PR. Well, sorry but that's the price to be short with Charlie.
