Got promotional material in the mail from Directv and was comparing our service with our current Dish package. We have everything with Dish, but are wanting to upgrade to either the Hopper or Genie, whichever one is better and cost less. Our dilemma is that we have a lot of stuff on our external harddrive related to things we copied over from our dvr. Will that be compatible with the directtv service in anyway or do we either lose it or have to watch it all before we switch over?