DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

[Juan]

Wasn't the purpose of EHDs to add holding capacity, back-up & preserve recordings on a long scale such that if the rx goes kaput you don't lose them? Have there been any known system-initiated deletions of recordings from rx/dvr units (such as hopper and ViP)? Other than for the HD being filled up?

The EHD turns the VIP221 into a 610 DVR

 

[telstar_1]

The EHD turns the VIP221 into a 610 DVR

Not exactly, as that would imply a unitary rx/HDD. To further the point, does connecting EHD to a 222 make for dual HD recording? Regardless, yes, there are definite constraints as far as using a 211- adding the EHD makes it DVR-capable, but only a single channel may be tuned at any time, either for viewing or for recording. No watching one thing/recording another or recording 2 at same time like with a 612, 622 or 722. Yet still if recordings are being saved in a 211-connected EHD I don't see any technical reason those recordings should at any point go away any more than they would for an EHD connected to and used with a unitary DVR model such as 612, 622, 722 (or hopper). Unless DiSH is indeed up to no good.

 

[navychop]

"Never ascribe to malice that which is explained by incompetence."

 

[Juan]

Not exactly, as that would imply a unitary rx/HDD. To further the point, does connecting EHD to a 222 make for dual HD recording? Regardless, yes, there are definite constraints as far as using a 211- adding the EHD makes it DVR-capable, but only a single channel may be tuned at any time, either for viewing or for recording. No watching one thing/recording another or recording 2 at same time like with a 612, 622 or 722. Yet still if recordings are being saved in a 211-connected EHD I don't see any technical reason those recordings should at any point go away any more than they would for an EHD connected to and used with a unitary DVR model such as 612, 622, 722 (or hopper). Unless DiSH is indeed up to no good.

Uhhh one tuner with a hard drive (EHD)on a VIP221...I dont think you can put a EHD on a VIP222

 

[zippyfrog]

Uhhh one tuner with a hard drive (EHD)on a VIP221...I dont think you can put a EHD on a VIP222

Correct - my first receiver was the VIP222k and there was no option to do the EHD on that receiver.

 

[Foxbat]

When I had the ViP 211 on our home account, you could record a Satellite event and an OTA event at the same time. While that was happening, you could play back from the EHD. Of course, that was a decade ago.

The last time I had checked on the recordings on our EHD at the cabin, The Who concert of "Tommy" I recorded off AXS was still playable, years after it had been recorded. However, the one-of-a-kind OTA recordings of Jeopardy and Nova featuring IBM's Watson had gone bad, with the 005 Error that others have seen. The loss of those bugged me the most.