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> On Thu, 1 May 2008 20:17:34 -0500 Deke <no spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> | 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?
>
> I noticed that 750GB limit. I'd like to have a talk with the
programmers as
> to why they put that limit in place (or the managers if they are the
ones who
> did that). I happen to have a 1TB USB drive spare right now. There are
2TB
> drives out now (they say the 722 does not support array drives, but
those can
> be set up to appear as one drive, so I don't know what the issue with
that is).
>
> What good programmers should do (and good managers not get in the way
of) is
> simply accept whatever size gets plugged in. I do understand why they
are
> encrypting the recordings keyed to the subscriber account. If the drive
is
> a 16TB drive that the USB standard _can_ handle NOW, and _will_ show up
at
> some point in the future, then their firmware code should just accept it
and
> use it all.
>
> Maybe they are limiting their code to 32 bit integers to index sectors?
If
> they did, they could do up to 2TB. Even if they were dumb and used only
> signed 32 bit ints to do that, they could still go up to 1TB. The 750GB
> limit just doesn't make sense from a technical perspective. Someone had
to
> have made an aritificial decision to set that limit.
>
> I have a 1TB drive that is actually less than 1TB expressed in binary.
Even
> with signed 32 bit ints indexing sectors, the whole drive can be
accessed as
> it is just short of the full binary 1TB size.
>
> USB supports multiple drives connected through a hub. Why can't they
handle
> that? Bad programmers or bad managers again?
>
> Features I'd like to see that COST THEM MONEY (so I don't expect they
would
> do for that reason): connectivity for Firewire drives, eSATA drives, CF
cards,
> SDHC card, ... and even allow BURNING onto attached DVD or BR-DVD
recorders
> in the encrypted form that can only play back on the same account (not
on the
> regular players unless the player is attached through the recivers
associated
> with that account).
>
As a follow-up, I noticed this on the Dish website...
http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/our_products/user_guides_and_manuals/index.shtml
Click on the "Linux Source Code" bar
--
jer
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