Measuring recording time of 622/722

[Smith P.]

There is presenting first attempt to do real clan measures.

This time used clean 500 GB disk and non-stop recording one of H.264 [MPEG-4] channel - DTHD.

As you can see Dish DVR overestimating available HD time by 10...12%.
In reality the disk accepted 62.5 hrs of HD material.

That means for me an internal algo expect higher bandwidth for calculate available space then the DTHD.
Probably based on very dynamic movie or sport events.

 

[Smith P.]

Another clean run while SD ch103 recording non-stop.

 

[Hall]

Dish wisely chose to under-estimate the amount of available hours that can be stored. No one will complain if they can record 30 hours of HD but definitely will if they can only record 15 hours.

Now what I want to know is, when you had 50+ hours recorded, what did the hours-available in the DVR screen say ?

 

[Smith P.]

It's in that tables; first three pairs are the numbers from screen, colums 7/8/9 are the same but in mins.
I mean overestimate bandwitdh of that channel and calculated more available space then 'Max' [55 hrs] minus 'Current recorded HD time'.