[mythtv-users] DISH Receivers and external HDDs

[Brian Wood]

On Apr 12, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> I thought I'd heard everything.
>>
>> I noticed that my new DISH HD DVR, which I obtained in anticipation  
>> of
>> getting my new Hauppauge capture device, has a feature to allow you  
>> to
>> store and retrieve files from an external hard drive.
>>
>> Hmmm. A good feature? Certainly looked interesting.
>>
>> Turns out they want a $39.95 charge to activate this feature.
>>
>> You can guess what I told them to do with their "feature" :-)
>>
>> beww
>
> Maybe it's for an mpeg license? As far as I know, mpeg requires
> consumers to pay a license fee if you give them control over the video
> that uses it... or something like that.


I never heard of needing a license just for a storage device. A record  
of playback device maybe, but not a drive.

I think it is pure greed.

I have discovered that if you pay them for the "feature" it will  
format the drive as ext3. It stores the program as a ".tsp" file,  
which appears to be the raw transport stream, which is of course  
encrypted.

If it would put the programs onto an ext3 disk in a usable format I'd  
pay them for it, but not just to get a useless encrypted file.

beww