Watch Recordings on "Paused Account"

[am7crew]

I will be going out of town for a few months and am going to put my account on 'dish pause'. My question is can you watch the recordings on the hopper while on pause? Reason I ask is a friend will coming over daily to walk my dogs and I didnt want to tell him he could watch a recording only to find out you cant. Any help would appreciated. thanks!

 

[MikeD-C05]

As far as I know , you can watch the shows by just hitting the dvr button. But I always unhooked the sat connection so they couldn't deliver the kill signal to my dvr. I tried this when I had to replace my old 722k that was crapping out and I couldn't transfer any recordings to my external hard drive. My wife had several shows on the old 722k and she watched them before I shipped the defective receiver back.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

If you have your receiver out of the datastream for a few days it will automatically deauthorize itself anyways...

 

[Stargazer]

I thought it took a week or two before it would lose authorization.

 

[am7crew]

so I guess that is a no on watching?

 

[navychop]

It's a no. You might get a few days of watching but I wouldn't count on anything.

 

[Stargazer]

I've watched shows on DVR's that have been out of the stream for months.

 

[navychop]

But which models? And how long ago?