New to satellite [Archive]

Mayhem Muppets

11-28-09, 11:41 AM

Greetings
We are moving out to the country where we can't get cable. So we are making the leap over to satellite. We can go direct or dish. Not really concerned about the sport broadcasts. Our electrician was pushing Dish so that we could utilize the standard def feed and high def feed from one box. That sounds like a good idea. One of the things I enjoy the most right now is that I have TivoToGo on my cable box. I would really like to be able to download shows off the satellite box and put it on my ipod. Is there away to connect the satellite to your network and look at the shows that are on there and download them? :scratch:

Thanks

Stewart Vernon

11-28-09, 01:49 PM

Hi... and welcome.

At the moment, no... While Dish does offer some "On Demand" options for their ViP receivers that you can download via broadband internet and watch on the Dish receiver... you can't transfer those shows to another computer nor can you just go anywhere on the internet to watch video from elsewhere.

That said... the 922 that they showed last year at CES (and still is in development) is purported to have more internet support so while it still is unlikely that you'll be able to watch your Dish recordings/programming on another computer... it might become possible to have more options for watching other internet video on your Dish receiver.

Basically it is a "stay tuned" situation while we wait to see when the 922 will be officially released and what features it might have at that time.

samsmith

11-29-09, 02:40 PM

i would recommend you to wait for 922 release, i am sure that would be an absolutely stunning system with sling support, touch pad remote(UHF 2g tech), dual tuner receiver, can support 2 OTA tuners, hard drive 1TB.

tymekeeper

11-29-09, 02:47 PM

You can watch on your computer if you have a TV tuner on it, It will act like another TV

samsmith

11-29-09, 02:51 PM

You can watch on your computer if you have a TV tuner on it, It will act like another TV

you can also use a sling player with any of the existing dish receivers as well.

for more info on Sling media follow the Link (http://www.slingmedia.com/)

Mayhem Muppets

11-29-09, 05:34 PM

you can also use a sling player with any of the existing dish receivers as well.

for more info on Sling media follow the

But can I record the shows displayed on the computer by the slingbox?

Guessing though the slingbox would control my satellite box and play it on there and stream it to my computer where I would have to setup some type of capture? I'm trying to not have to capture the data.

Jim5506

11-29-09, 08:09 PM

I did not realize there was a cable box with TiVo built-in, or do you have a TiVo connected to your cable box?

I have a TiVo Series 2 stand alone box on my Dish receiver and it can record programming from the Dish receiver's tuner and send it over my network to my PC.

Mayhem Muppets

11-29-09, 09:36 PM

Like I said I'm new to this but looks as if directv is coming out with one

http://www.tivo.com/dvr-products/tivo-partners/tivo-directv/index.html

samsmith

11-30-09, 12:59 PM

Like I said I'm new to this but looks as if directv is coming out with one

http://www.tivo.com/dvr-products/tivo-partners/tivo-directv/index.html

Sling is much better than Tivo.

Mayhem Muppets

11-30-09, 07:16 PM

I don't see how a sling box is going to allow me to extract files to store on my computer or convert to files for my ipod...

djlong

12-01-09, 10:35 AM

That because you're not allowed to. The Dish DVRs are a "closed system" - that's one reason that, when you hook up an external hard drive, it's reformatted. It won't work if you just hook it up to a PC once Dish has reformatted it.

The Sling technology allows you to STREAM it (a program) elsewhere, but not STORE it elsewhere.

koji68

12-01-09, 01:37 PM

With a HAVA you can record on the receiving PC whatever you are streaming.

http://www.myhava.com/product_hava_platinum_hd.html

Whatever happened to the Archos machines? Are those still supported?

Edit: I found the answer to my question: http://www.archos.com/plug-ins/index_dish.html?country=us&lang=en

Mayhem Muppets

12-01-09, 09:45 PM

With a HAVA you can record on the receiving PC whatever you are streaming.

http://www.myhava.com/product_hava_platinum_hd.html

Can you tell me more about this. Does it record to the PC in HD and SD?

I guess I still have to stream it to the pc inorder to record it. Is that much different than capturing it with composite cables?

I'd like to be able to look at a list of shows like my tivo2go and say I want that one and download it to the computer. Know way of doing that?

matthewb80

12-01-09, 10:19 PM

The 922 will be no better than the 722k unless you have highspeed internet, Which could be an issue for you out in the country.

paja

12-02-09, 09:12 AM

Sling is much better than Tivo.

Based on what????

Mayhem Muppets

12-02-09, 03:24 PM

The 922 will be no better than the 722k unless you have highspeed internet, Which could be an issue for you out in the country.

Not sure what is meant by this. I'll have DSL where I am at...

RASCAL01

12-03-09, 01:36 PM

If you have DSL then you have highspeed :D

Mayhem Muppets

12-03-09, 07:22 PM

If you have DSL then you have highspeed :D

Thank you thank you very much.

I didn't know what was meant by the 922 vs 722k...
Since I have high speed is one better than the other?

Stewart Vernon

12-03-09, 09:07 PM

Thank you thank you very much.

I didn't know what was meant by the 922 vs 722k...
Since I have high speed is one better than the other?

Without a broadband connection, the differences between the 922 and 722K will be unusable by you (Sling capability, Internet Web browser, for example).

Mayhem Muppets

12-03-09, 09:19 PM

Without a broadband connection, the differences between the 922 and 722K will be unusable by you (Sling capability, Internet Web browser, for example).

Since I have broadband...
Do I want the 922

phrelin

12-04-09, 12:53 AM

Since I have broadband...
Do I want the 922The 922 is still unavailable - some would be tempted to call it vaporware, though it appears Dish may be releasing it in some urban markets "soon". There is a truth about new hardware from Dish - wait at least six months to let others who enjoy problem solving work out the initial bugs.

You're starting from a point of relative comfort -TiVotoGo and an iPod - that isn't achievable with Dish Network at this time. You can stream to your computer if it has the appropriate cards and inputs. But that's as far as it goes.

Stewart Vernon

12-04-09, 01:05 AM

Since I have broadband...
Do I want the 922

As phrelin stated, the 922 technically does not yet exist (though Dish "debuted" it last year at CES and has talked about it on Charlie/Tech chats as something coming "soon")... so I have to give the same advice I always give on this one.

I currently have a 622 and a 722... and from what I've heard, I figure I will want a 922 when they become available... so I'm holding off on any equipment upgrades until the 922 comes out.

BUT... if I were a new customer to Dish, I wouldn't wait for the 922 before signing up. I'd be quite happy with a 722/722K I think... and I'd rather be watching the TV than waiting for something that might not be out for a while OR perhaps might be in low availability when it does first become available.

koji68

12-07-09, 03:14 PM

Can you tell me more about this. Does it record to the PC in HD and SD?

I guess I still have to stream it to the pc inorder to record it. Is that much different than capturing it with composite cables?

I'd like to be able to look at a list of shows like my tivo2go and say I want that one and download it to the computer. Know way of doing that?

The HAVA is SD only, they call it DVD quality, even when the source is HD because you are streaming over the network. If you can capture with a cable, this would give you better quality.

As far as tivo2go functionality you can't do that with Dish. You can download to the Archos machines only.

BattleZone

12-08-09, 10:35 AM

As far as tivo2go functionality you can't do that with Dish. You can download to the Archos machines only.

And even then, only MPEG2 content, as the Archos players can't handle MPEG4. Note that this makes the Archos units unusable by Eastern Arc customers, for whom virtually all content is MPEG4.