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And can I record saved programs onto a VHS tape or even better with a DVD recorder if I ever get one? Or even on my PC that has a DVDR drive?
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Yes. Just press play on the DVR and record on whatever recorder you choose.
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Will the quality be any good?
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That depends on the quality of the equipment used for recording. With the Dish DVRs and the DirecTivo both record the bit stream directly from the dish so there is no loss of quality in that recording. Stand alone Tivos re-encode their recordings so there is a loss of quality. How big a loss depends on the recording setting you use.
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Can I crack open the DVR and swap the hard drive with a bigger one that's like 250 gigs, or would that destroy it (I can build a PC from scratch so I'd know what I'm doing for the most part)?
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Tivo, yes but they can only "see" 137GB per drive. Yes you can put in dual drives. Dish, very few people have successfully upgraded.
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Does Dish have Tivo, or is it their own service?
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It's their own creation.
To me and 50,000 members of the Tivo Community site, YES.
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My DVR receiver will be in the TV room, but when I get the big HDTV that'll be going in the big living room, so will I be able to move the DVR box to somewhere else in the house and basically just swap the boxes?
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Depends on your wiring. The cheaper Dish PVRs are single tuner and only use one coax. The more expensive, dual tuner models use two coax runs. The DirecTivos are dual tuner so they also use two coax runs. All of the current HD receivers use one coax for satellite. With HD you also have to have an antenna and that may or may not require another coax.
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Do they have any HDTV receivers with Tivo built in?
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Dish will have a dual HD sat tuner/single OTA HD tuner model out soon. Rumored price is about $1,000. The HD DirecTivo will be out Q1-'04. It will have dual HD sat tuners and dual OTA HD tuners. Price will be about $800 to $1000. Both can record two HD streams at once.
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Saving over $144 a year seems pretty nice for Dish.
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It's not worth it to me. I've read about the Dish PVRs and I'm willing to pay more for Tivo features. Tivo with it's name based recording is much better. Set it up and forget it. With the way the networks move shows, you will have to baby-sit the Dish models with their timer based recordings.
-Robert
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