I work with computers and I am very familiar with Seagate. I still have some Seagate drives with windows xp home on it, and still are running fine, just saying the runtime efficiency of a Seagate hard drive is way longer than a year . This hopper box is less than a year old. If I just want to rent movies ill go to Family Video, Blockbuster, or Red Box, if I purchase a movie on PPV to download to my DVR and I spent MONEY to buy the movie, I EXPECT it to remain on a drive or have the system to be able to read the drive and interpret it and display its directories accordingly, with the life expectancy of a year, HOPPER is one of DISH's latest models . Who the heck are you to know what "other companies" do? Ive had charter give me a promo cost for a year for a mess up on their part before because of mess-up.......wait for it......wait for it.....ON THEIR END! Don't go pointing fingers at Seagate because it's irrelevant what drive is in it, the DISH LOGO is on the outside of the box. I don't want to be compensated, it was a lack of a better word on my part. I just want a little more effort than a shrug. I never implied that providers give non DVR free DVRs or DVR privileges, and your level of ignorance has exceeded my level of tolerance. I obviously went to the wrong site for intelligent input on a genuine problem. No matter what I expect, the DISH's latest model remains inadequate and my inquiry turns into a questionable debate on my expectations of a multi-billion dollar corporations relationships with the people that made them that with a side of practical business lessons because the lack of information on the real problem has eluded your comprehension. Sometimes its just better to remain quite when you are unsure of what you are talking about rather than opening your mouth and creating a new issue.
This thread has went waaaaaaaaaay of topic and should be closed.