Hello,
I currently am a Dish customer, and use the 722k dvr receiver. I recently saved a lot of media onto an external hard drive.
I have a ton of music concerts that a friend of mine would like to view. Does anyone know if it would be possible for him to view this content, if he purchased the same Dish 722k off of ebay, and then simply plugged in my external drive to the 722k, and the 722k to his TV?
I've asked a couple of Dish tech support folks, and gotten mixed opinions. The first one said that it would work fine. The second one said that it would require the other receiver be "activated" by Dish, as if he was subscribing,.. then, after viewing, he could simply cancel his subscription. I failed to ask the first guy.
Seems like a pain to me. I also believe I read on line somewhere that there would only be a "one time" activation fee,.. although the second tech support person didn't think that would be the case.
Anyone have any insight on this?
Is there any other way to view this external hard drive content on a "non Dish" tv besides purchasing a blu ray recorder/player, and putting it in line and recording in "real time",.... geez, another pain and a LOT of dvr's! lol
Thanks for any input,
Marc
I currently am a Dish customer, and use the 722k dvr receiver. I recently saved a lot of media onto an external hard drive.
I have a ton of music concerts that a friend of mine would like to view. Does anyone know if it would be possible for him to view this content, if he purchased the same Dish 722k off of ebay, and then simply plugged in my external drive to the 722k, and the 722k to his TV?
I've asked a couple of Dish tech support folks, and gotten mixed opinions. The first one said that it would work fine. The second one said that it would require the other receiver be "activated" by Dish, as if he was subscribing,.. then, after viewing, he could simply cancel his subscription. I failed to ask the first guy.
Seems like a pain to me. I also believe I read on line somewhere that there would only be a "one time" activation fee,.. although the second tech support person didn't think that would be the case.
Anyone have any insight on this?
Is there any other way to view this external hard drive content on a "non Dish" tv besides purchasing a blu ray recorder/player, and putting it in line and recording in "real time",.... geez, another pain and a LOT of dvr's! lol
Thanks for any input,
Marc