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Does Dish Network vip722 require a phone hookup if you do not plan om using PPV or caller ID?
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∙ 16y ago
Dish waived a $5 per month fee for my SD model 510 DVR if it was connected to a phone line continuously.
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How do you tape a show on dish network?
Some Dish Network DVR support moving of TV programs to an external USB 2.0 hard drive. The ViP 622 has this feature and they support up to 750GB hard drives. However, this doesn't let you read the drive on a PC and copy these files somewhere else such as DVD. This is also supported on the ViP722 as well. However, you can't record directly to the external drive but you can move video to it and play directly from the drive. You can use multiple external drives on the same Personal Video Recorder or PVR.
Dish network external hard drive to PC?
The external hard drive is supported on our 211, 211k, 411, 612, 622, 722, 722k, and 922 receivers. It will support single tier hard drives from 50 GB to 2 TB DVR receivers and 50 GB to 1TB non-DVR receivers (211, 211k, 411). You can use external hard drives in like receiver families so if a receiver is replaced it will still work if you have the same receiver model (722 for a 722). The rest of the information below is correct except for the hard drive sizes. Some Dish Network DVR support moving of TV programs to an external USB 2.0 hard drive. The ViP 622 has this feature and they support up to 750GB hard drives. However, this doesn't let you read the drive on a PC and copy these files somewhere else such as DVD. This is also supported on the ViP722 as well. However, you can't record directly to the external drive but you can move video to it and play directly from the drive. You can use multiple external drives on the same Personal Video Recorder or PVR.
Is it possible to download saved programs from a DVR dish network to a computer?
1. Yes, you can download the saved programs from DVR to a computer; to connect it you need cable or enclosure and to read the recorded material you need a software such as PVR Explorer that can read Linux file system (Windows will not be able to see the DVR hard drive).You can connect the hard drive to a Desktop or Laptop PC (you can connect directly using IDE or SATA cable or use an external hard drive enclosure or an IDE to USB cable). Once the hard drive is connected you can use a software like PVR Explorer (free, open source software) to browse through the vidoes and copy them to your PC:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=165873As of 1-17-2009, the PVR Explorer supports Dish/Echostar 501/508/510/522/625 model numbers. Many DVRs have a warranty sticker on the hard drive enclosure inside the DVR and removing the sticker would void the warranty. In some cases you can still connect to the2. It is possible to download saved programs from a Dish Network DVR using a Generation 5 Archos Multimedia Mobile device (Archos 605 WiFi and 705 WiFi).But only a few DVR's are supported (ViP722, ViP622, and ViP612 -- although the Archos website doesn't mention support for the ViP612).The only small step to be able to download your video content from the DVR to the Archos is to install a free plug-in (the link can be found at the Dish Network/Archos website).3. There are other options; you can play the videos and re-recording them on an external device but it will result in loss of quality and it will take a lot more time than just copying the videos to a PC:You will need a video card with video capture ability. then you can run your DVR, DVD player, digital camcorder...etc.. into it and save it.
