I had noticed a delay in playback of content from my ESD (750GB WD MyBook Essential). Is anyone else experiencing this?
I had selected a program, pressed the playback button and the screen went blank/black for what seemed an eternity (probably five or ten seconds).
I love the info displayed on recorded content. It would be a nice addition to be able to view size of recordings on the DVR's primary drive. It might be of use when deciding to purge or transfer content to the ESD. It would also be interesting to see size of MPEG2 HD programs and have a loose comparison of similar HD programs recorded from MPEG4 broadcast.
Cheers,
Spence
I've got the Seagate FreeAgent 500 and there is a delay for spin up when I first hit "Manage USB Device", but when I select a program and then click "Play", the delay is only ~1 second. All other stuff (skip, rew, ffd, etc) all behave like they do from the DVR.
As far as file sizes, when you manage the drive and are selecting programs to move to the external, it tells you the file size of the programs on the internal drive - makes it nice to select the big ones to archive. A sampling of what I have and sizes:
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Title SD/HD Channel HH:MM Size
"Last Stand of the 300" SD HIST 2:04 2026MB
"Cars" HD STZHD 2:04 5314MB
"Charade" HD HDNMV 1:59 7542MB
"U2 Vertigo Tour 2005" HD HDNMV 1:31 8116MB
Not sure how to tell MPEG2 vs MPEG4, but it looks obvious by file sizes. (Sorry about the code box - only way I could see to easily format tabs.)
HTH!