On-Demand Newbie Questions

Background:
I have a new HR-23, and my internet connection is Hughesnet (satellite). Since I didn't want to remove the 101 dish for the non HD TV's I now have 3 dishes on my house. (Not to mention Sirius Satellite Radio and my GPS, I guess I am totally "wired" to satellites.)

Anyway, with Hughesnet, I am limited to 375MB per day, or they shut me down to sub-dialup speeds for 24 hours, which, with the latency of satellite, is very painful. (They call this the Fair Access Policy or FAP.)

I definitely can not use On-Demand whenever I want, except perhaps during the non-FAP hours of 11PM to 4AM PST, when the usage is not subject to the daily limits. During the free hours, I can get 300 to 400 MB per hour.

Questions:
1. Can On-Demand shows be saved to the HR-23 disk?

2. Can I schedule On-Demand to download during the 11PM-4AM window and save the program to be watched?

3. How big are the programs in SD or HD?

4. Should I just tell DirecTV to disable on-demand?


Sorry if this is in the FAQ, I haven't seen any reference to this, and I haven't yet stayed up late enough to try it. (I normally go to sleep around 10.)

Brad Houser

jdspencer said:

I 'll try.
#1. Yes, you can save the shows to the HR23 disk. Where else did you think they would be saved?

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I didn't know if they were only to be streamed and watched or if you had the option to save it.

#2 Not that I know of.
#3 Not sure, but I think HD takes twice the space as SD. SD could be 1GB/hr. Of course this depends on how much they are compressed.
#4 Why bother with having DirecTV disabling it? Just don't use it.

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Because I am not the only one in the house. By disabling it, no one accidentally kills my bandwidth.

It looks like I won't be using On Demand.

Thanks,

Brad