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When I got the "U" update on my Hopper with Sling, my loss was the size of the files both in-disk and on the external drives. BTW I loss 3 HD to the in-use on another device message with 17 total drives--this is a chunk of the alphabet as most are stored that way. I appreciated the improved...

Someone (perhaps I?) pushed the FORMAT button on my Hopper and it messes with HD, too. It leaves the Stretch clue with one push when you press CANCEL. "Menu>Settings>Screen Adjustments>HDTV>Aspect Ratio" does not get you back. The FORMAT button being near the edge is easily hit. I've been using...

If most of what you have are movies then it is likely the 1000 limit would not be a problem especially as the limit is likely in excess of 1500 titles. The 3TB limit would be from the size of one of the tables, so is less likely to be bypassed. Losing files to crashes etc., will not be more...

I saw a report months ago that the software partition allocations should work with a 3TB but not 4TB. (I can see where that might be true.) Dish software may restrict it, even so. Has anyone here made a 3TB work or found a Mac workaround to make dish software accept one? I'm looking to get price...

What I did was to format the drive on my Mac and then put on the receiver, where it will not recognize it and formats the Dish way. -Ken

By "loose" you mean "lose", well both. I archived far too much. Still it's great to have the EHD. I'll never get to most of that but just in case I take a fancy to them, I can see entire series. -Ken

Ordered by Date may not be what you want. Ordered by "Episode" tends to work better even though it is not episode number but related to the date originally shown. You will find at season's end that they have earlier recorded the finale, but not shown it until a few (fill-in) shows later. That...

Lately, I have a problem, which think is unrelated to the limit, on one drive. When I play Person Of Interest recordings directly from the EHD, it will stop almost immediately even if at the middle of the recording. I must play and answer the auto-Hop question, if any, and quickly back up or...

I have up to 1500 recordings on a 2TB, too many 1/2 hour shows mixed with 1 hour ones. I'm tempted to try a 3TB drive for the movies, not the small stuff. My philosophy is 2 drives are just as likely to lose any single show as a big double sized one. Yes, you would lose more at one time but more...

Is it just sound output or does it do some other magic? -Ken

If yes, then ask all about 5TB, which is close to be the cheapest drive per TB. -Ken

To play from the EHD just select the gray button (whatever you named your recorder) on the DVR menu. It should drop down the 1 or 2 selections for drives after the internal. Then go thru the icons in your ordering. I have like 12 drives possible. You can connect up to 4 at a time but after the...

Make sure you are not filtering the results by a category or other as it did show recorded. Not on My Folders etc., just No Folders and not in Deleted Recordings. Check locks, too. -Ken

Concur. The oldest recording I found quickly from my spreadsheet was from 2009, probably from a 622. I have 14 drives from .75 to 2 TB and all work for my 3000+ movies & docs plus a thousand+ new episodes. I have only had one .75 WD drive go bad and a 1TB Buffalo go weak, it revived with...

For overlap recording, the software/hardware would have to write 2 streams for each overlapped tuner (probably not contemplated in the single-stream-per-tuner design.) We'll all agree the old sharp cut was annoying as it missed and messed more often than not but was a necessity of a single tuner...

You could change the title on the 722 series but were restricted to an initial cap and the rest lower case. Case mismatch would prevent folder name matching. No going back, thanks. -Ken

If you are recording or watching then a power pull is safer that pulling the data connection. The latter often causes the system to reboot. That is not to say that a reboot won't happen with an EHD power pull but just less likely, as I've experienced it. -Ken

Looks like this is old news and depends on what is in the TCM vault. It just hasn't been on Dish--that I can tell. Some other providers have had HD since 2009. For an good article see whatsonhdtv.blogspot.com/2009/12/tcm-hd-arrives.html Hope it is for real now. -Ken

TCM has been in unconverted SD for a long time, not bad, but. It now looks like HD on some movies. Then I will have to re-record a lot of movies, over 900, whenever they are shown.

Remember to put any antenna amplifier or switch on the UPS or you will record no signal. -Ken

I have working 2TB drives up to about 1500 mostly 1/2 and 1hr series, not movies, 98 to 100% full often with 10+ series. The 1/2 hour shows can add a lot to the count. Other drives have the 2hr movies. So I think the 999 limit is wrong. Some get the wrong date (2/6/2106, note century) and no...

Charles, why would I pay $140 for what can be bought for $80 +-$10? Today the rate of ~$40 per TB is the higher end. It goes as low as $30 but I don't buy Seagate for some forgotten reason of many years ago. I have and might again buy a noisy Fantom, but likely not although cheaper. Mostly I...

BTW most USB bricks output 5V, not the 12V show. Some have 2 voltages (3 wire and a different plug)--I have one of those, which would make substituting hard. -Ken

Yes that is the question as the optimum price point is now 3 or 4TB drives. The unanswered question for me is does Dish provide enough directory space internally for files of 1/2 or 1 hour length. Given smaller drives work for 1000 to 1500 files, then the larger drive may only work with 2 hour...

I said that you can have up to 4 powered USB drives (using a 4-port hub)--5 will not add one and don't know how many with a dongle in use. But only the "first two" will be viewable. You can do transfers to all or any at the same time--not terribly recommended. You may or not recover viewing if...