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  1. Almighty1

    Dish home interactive ch. 100 on vip receivers

    It's more of a convenience factor and cost I think assuming you can buy an OTA for the 211z. But think of it like this as well, it's almost like integrated versus a modular design so if the OTA failed on the previous 211s, you have to replace the entire receiver but with the 211Z, you just...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    arlo - Yes, don't treat the on/off switch for safe removal but it's more of a way to disconnect the connection to the port in general without plugging in and unplugging the cable or basically without wearing down the cable or the port which was what I was saying. So if you do use it, it's the...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    Yep and those of the things I thought of that seems like a possibility so I wasn't disagreeing, but agreeing and just listing the benefits of it but ofcourse hopefully the switches don't fail.
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    Boost partners with Apple, Amazon in new wireless service - September 22, 2023

    iPhone is a better OS as it is FreeBSD based but Android which is Linux based has some apps for me atleast like Cantonese input that is unavailable on Apple. The other thing is unless the Android phone can be rooted, you can only backup the apps and not the data of the apps while on the iPhone...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    The on-off buttons are useful because it will also help in not having to keep unplugging and plugging in cables as you can disconnect to the EHDDs using the buttons so if the Hopper 3 doesn't detect the drives, sometimes it requires pulling the cable and plugging it back in which may involve...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    I would like to mention a experience yesterday when I mounted the DISH EHDD's to my computer and it basically won't allow removal. The reason was because I had a partition manager software reading the drive and/or something like Crystal Disk Info so it doesn't need to be writing to the drive...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    Target has a 2TB Seagate for $62.99, I only saw the price on the shelf but not the actual drive as it seems like they stock a low supply (Qty 1 to be exact of one or two models) of hard drives in their inventory. The Western Digital Black portable is probably the fastest as it probably uses the...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    For #1, the numbers are assigned randomly so it will say External Device x connected where x is the device #. If one only had one devices connected, then it will always say 1. If you have more than one device connected, it will randomly assign the # each time from my experience which should...
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    DISH External Hard Drive Partitions and sizes

    Yes, that might be the way how DISH does it. What I was talking about was Western Digital External Hard Drives hardware encryption which are two different things as the controller inside there would encrypt all data going through it so you can't take the internal HDD from that enclosure and...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    I think the thing is that there is no such thing as unmount first on a DISH DVR compared to a computer like Windows where there is the Safety Hardware Remove and Eject media so there really isn't the choice except there is always a risk of data corruption so even on Windows, sometimes using the...
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    Looking at my options to save money

    Yeah, the connected part might be hard since the entire house will be demolished first so in the worse case scenario since everything recorded whether internally on the H3 or on external HDDs are all from content from TVB, I might have to give up on DISH and just subscribe to TVB's streaming...
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    Time for another subscription increase

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/25/wga-amptp-hollywood-writers-deal.html
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    Boost partners with Apple, Amazon in new wireless service - September 22, 2023

    I was browsing on Facebook using my phone earlier, it appears that Boost Infinite is also doing this $60/month deal on their site directly without going through Amazon. https://www.boostinfinite.com/plans/infinite-access-for-iphone It does offer quite a bit in features though...
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    AI chatbots on Satelliteguys

    You're probably right, been a long time 10-20 years since I last had a chat with one of the Eliza sites. LOL
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    This is what I use which provides power for any internal drive and works on both EIDE/PATA as well as SATA internal drives... I has worked for 4TB drives from my testing...
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    362 is here

    Maybe it's shorter than 8-9 minutes as I never really timed it so maybe this is yet something that H358 brought in that is also on newer versions. For the EHD's, sometimes rebooting doesn't always work as there were times I had to unplug the EHDD's before rebooting if all other solutions fail...
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    Looking at my options to save money

    Could be, not sure what the limits are since this is one area where others are experts which was why I was asking but assuming it really was 8 months straight, do they allow doing a pause then at the 8 months, reinstate and then maybe a few days later, pause again and repeat?
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    Trouble Authorizing Hopper 3 Receiver Purchased on Ebay

    I meant to also say spec wise, even for a receiver or a mobile phone of the same model. They will never perform the same because they will only need to meet the specs but some may be made better where it will exceed the specs so you can have two iPhone 15 Pro's as a example, one will be able to...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    And I wanted to add, that for the Elements, My Passport, My Passport Ultra of the same product year, they will all use the same exact internal HDD inside. The only difference is the Ultra has cloud backup so you are paying for external features. They will all have the same 256-bit AES hardware...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    For longetivity, just like anything else, it's a YMMV as the MTBF ratings is only synthentic testing so even if it said 100,000 hours. Yours could fail 2 days later or 2 years later or never fail at all. I can tell you that even the Samsung 850Pro SSD which is 2.5", I had a pair and one of...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    Better to be safe than sorry is another way to say it. With that being said, I noticed that there are times I transfer to external HDD and the process hanged at 70% for example that only a reboot would fix and give access again to a working EHDD, the original recording is still on the internal...
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    EHD questions for Hipkat/Boston or any experienced member

    I'll just briefly answer as I need to do other things... 1) The reason it doesn't recognize most likely isn't the hard drive itself but the ATA to USB bridge or controller chip that sits between the actual internal HDD and the USB connector as I had the same issue with a docking station which...
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    Boost partners with Apple, Amazon in new wireless service - September 22, 2023

    Yeah, didn't read in the full details on what that extra $35/month brings as I usually buy my phones outright paid in full. While it might be a good deal, but ofcourse similar to the older days, you can have the best phone in the world as in phones that were GSM with a sim card but the other...
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    Trouble Authorizing Hopper 3 Receiver Purchased on Ebay

    That's because they don't own/rent the property but you do so they will only care about it working and can cost more damage than needed like drilling holes when you have ways to get the wire there without drilling holes, etc for example and also likely one will do it more carefully as the techs...
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    Trouble Authorizing Hopper 3 Receiver Purchased on Ebay

    Yes, you are right on that part because compression is known to have the tight weather seal for what you mentioned but it is unknown how sealed Canare's connector is in that regard when it comes to that part of the equation as while it may be crimped, it's not the standard crimp tool but they...