Playing external hard drive recordings without satellite

Sparky9 said:

Hello, newbie here.

I was trying to find an answer to my question and was glad to find this forum.

I have two Dish 722k receivers with an external hard drive on each. I am looking at the possibility of discontinuing Dish service, but want to be able to play my recorded show on my hard drives. I was wondering if I bought one or two receivers and used the hard drive (or drives, depending on if I buy one or two receivers), will I be able to watch the recorded shows on the receiver without satellite service?

One other question: if this is possible, is it possible to hook up two hard drives to one receiver?

Thanks,

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Sparky9 said:

I'm assuming the disconnect signal would affect the external hard drive? The new receiver would be one that I buy and never hook up to a satellite signal. It's sole purpose would be to play back my recorded shows.

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comfortably_numb said:

I would think as long as the receiver never receives the disconnect signal (in other words, unhook the coax before you cancel) then I think it should work.

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primestar31 said:

This is not true, and hasn't been for many years. Even IF it doesn't receive the disconnect signal when he cancels, the subscription will expire/time out eventually, usually by the end of the month.

As for external drive activation, they are activated as a TIER, just as if it was a channel subscription. That means that'll expire also.

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comfortably_numb said:

I’m still using one now and it has never shut off

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primestar31 said:

Well, it's a miracle then, or you canceled a long time ago before they started doing this.

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comfortably_numb said:

I never canceled, I just unhooked it then removed the receiver from my account. My current active receiver is Wally.

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primestar31 said:

So you are saying the receiver was disconnected from the coax? You use that disconnected receiver to watch shows on it's original external drive? But you still have an active sub?

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Sparky9 said:

I'm thinking my best bet may be to just keep one receiver in service with a bare bones package. By the way, I got my DISH service years ago as a bundled package with my AT&T phone & internet. They don't even offer DISH anymore. Now their package is with Direct TV, so I may face some issues when I go changing anything.

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comfortably_numb said:

I never canceled, I just unhooked it then removed the receiver from my account. My current active receiver is Wally.

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Sparky9 said:

My second question was: is there a way to run two external hard drives off of one receiver?

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primestar31 said:

Yes, but not at the same time. You have to switch them out after doing a proper disconnect or eject through the menu. You can switch back and forth.

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Dudleydog73 said:

Is that a 722 thing? I have two EHDs attached to my H3 and they both show up in the DVR menu at the same time.

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JSheridan said:

The VIP receivers can only see one EHD at a time, Hoppers can see up to three.

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