Can you move a recorded program from one recvr to another using external drive?

[kscott]

I have 2 ViP612's and 1 ViP722. If I record a program on one of them and move it to an external drive - can I then physicall move the external drive to one of the other receivers, plug it in, and watch the program on it?

(I haven't paid to activate the external drive on any of the receivers yet. I was just curious if it could be done.)

Thanks in advance-

 

[garys]

Yes you can transfer from Vip dvr receiver to EHD to another Vip dvr receiver on your account, but only a couple of times.

 

[JimK2]

Can I then physicall move the external drive to one of the other receivers, plug it in, and watch the program on it?

Yes

 

[TheKrell]

What would really make our VIP receivers insanely great (apologies to Steven Jobs) would be to enable them to share disks via Ethernet. No EHD necessary.

 

[KAB]

Yes you can transfer from Vip dvr receiver to EHD to another Vip dvr receiver on your account, but only a couple of times.

NO. That restriction was removed some time ago.

 

[KKlare]

Yes, you can move the disk to any 6x2/722 on your household account. The limitation on moves was before there was a household key. Find it in menu-6-3-counters-pagedown*6. I suppose the same is true for the 2xx series but separately, unfortunately.

If you have trouble with a recorder saying it now wants to reformat a previously used Dish disk, then ask for a hit. This changes the household key on all your machines so you may have to have all on-line but can be done while active. In my 2 cases of 3 units for the hit, one of each hit still ended with a different key in the last hex-digit but worked. How?

-Ken