211 DVR?

[cleary]

I have a 211K receiver and I understand I can add an external hard drive to it and have Dish activate DVR on it for 40 bucks. Any recommendations on what hard drive to use? I think I heard that it has to be an externally powered drive.

Thanks, Chuck

 

[KAB]

Western Digital Essentials EHD.

 

[ccg3]

Make sure you get a single Hard Drive, some units sold have two 500 gig hard drives to get to 1 TB these units are not supported.

 

[cleary]

Thanks for the the responses. Yesterday I bought the WD Essentials drive and it is up and running. It is only showing "My Recordings" in it's menu so I am wondering if it has Movies on Demand. The Power/Activity LED has been flashing rapidly in varying patterns continuously since I installed it yesterday. It is a 1 TB drive and I now see that Dish says it should be a 50 to 750 Gig drive for the 211. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Chuck

 

[Mark A Sparks]

It is a 1 TB drive and I now see that Dish says it should be a 50 to 750 Gig drive for the 211. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Chuck

The 1 TB works fine on the 211/211k.

I have a 1 TB Essentials as well and no problems so far, I think the amount of Gig was raised for the 211 to 1 TB, don't know that for sure?

Can someone else clarify this, looks like Dish hasn't on thier website.

 

[w2kb]

The 1 TB works fine on the 211/211k.

I have a 1 TB Essentials as well and no problems so far, I think the amount of Gig was raised for the 211 to 1 TB, don't know that for sure?

Can someone else clarify this, looks like Dish hasn't on thier website.

I recently installed a WD Elements 1TB and it formatted and works fine. Before that as an experiment I tried a WD 1.5TB Elements that I got to backup the PC, and got an error message that on the 211K that said it must be between 50?G and 1TB. So it clearly was updated to 1TB though the web documentation at Dish has not yet caught up.

 

[cleary]

Thanks for clearing up the capacity issue for me. Does movies on demand or VOD work on your 211s? When I push the DVR button on the remote I get a menu that only has "My Recordings" option on it.

Chuck

 

[garys]

VOD is only available on dvr receivers. Although the 211 will work as a dvr when EHD is connected, it is still not a dvr model and will not do VOD.

 

[cleary]

Thanks for all your responses. That answers all my questions.

Thanks again, Chuck

 

[blfuller]

I am using a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black in a Icy-Dock MB664US-1SB external enclosure hooked up to a VIP 211k receiver. Everything seems to be working just fine. This configuration gives me 97 hours of recording time in HD

 

[sratson]

If you add a hard drive to the 211k does it use the 9 day program guide instead of the 3 day? I noticed the 9 day has more info in it.. ie. episode #, original air date...

 

[Joe99]

Yes, 9 day.

 

[GravelChan]

If you add a hard drive to the 211k does it use the 9 day program guide instead of the 3 day? I noticed the 9 day has more info in it.. ie. episode #, original air date...

Yes

 

[cditty]

On this same note, can a 211K with an external hard drive record OTA and Sat at the same time?

If so, can it still play back a separate DVR event while doing so?

 

[Joe99]

I can say that a 211 can do all of that, but I do not have a 211K.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Yes, the 211k with external hard drive support can record one ota and one sat and play something else at the same time