Deke wrote:
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>> DishNet documents the ViP722 somewhat unclearly. But it seems that it
has
>> two satellite tuners and one ATSC tuner integrated. In one place they
say
>> it is possible to record 2 programs from sattelite at the same time
while
>> watching a third program being played back from disk. What I cannot
> figure
>> out is if both recordings can be in HD at the same time, even though
the
> 2nd
>> tuner is normally used to output only SD to a 2nd TV. I would think it
> should
>> since it would in theory just be recording the compressed bitstream.
Then
> it
>> would downconvert later for an SD output?
>>
>> Can I watch an OTA ATSC program while recording 2 HD programs from
> satellite?
>
> Yes
>> Can I record one satellite program in HD, plus record one OTA ATSC
program
> in
>> HD, while watching a different satellite program in HD?
>
> Yes
>> Can I record all three of: 2 satellite HD programs plus 1 OTA ATSC HD
> program
>> at the same time?
>
> Yes. And, at the same time, watch a program already recorded from the
hard
> drive, SD or HD. So you are recording 3 HD programs, two from
satellite,
> and one from OTA, while watching something else from the Hard Drive.
> Its an amazing machine. It kicks sand in the face of every other DVR
that I
> know of. Plus you can add an external
> hard drive, up to 750gb, without losing the use of the built-in hard
drive.
> I'm using mine in single mode, by the way. The above features may not
be
> available in dual mode, but who cares?
>
> Deke
I don't have one, but I've been poking around about the external drive
stuff. USB2.0 on either of two jacks (one front, one rear). An
external drive has to be formatted by, and remain dedicated to, the sat
box. One can only move protected (HDCP?) programs between the internal
and external drives, not copy them, and playback from either. Once
moved to the external drive, it cannot be copied again, only moved back
to the internal DVR. Presumably, protected material is encrypted, or
otherwise locked to the drives. I've not seen any details about
non-protected material.
--
jer
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