[pappy97]

Assuming I ever get my grubby little hands on an HR34, can I use unsupported MRV via ethernet with the HR34, or will I be forced to go DECA if I want to use the HR34 in an MRV set up?

Right now I have two HD-DVRS (HR22's), and one HD receiver (H21). All on our unsupport MRV set up. We'd love to swap out (once it's possible to get HR34 without paying $400) the H21 receiver for the HR34, plug the HR34 into our lan via ethernet, and have it part of our unsupport whole-home set up.

Will that work? Thanks!

 

[lugnutathome]

Assuming I ever get my grubby little hands on an HR34, can I use unsupported MRV via ethernet with the HR34, or will I be forced to go DECA if I want to use the HR34 in an MRV set up?

Right now I have two HD-DVRS (HR22's), and one HD receiver (H21). All on our unsupport MRV set up. We'd love to swap out (once it's possible to get HR34 without paying $400) the H21 receiver for the HR34, plug the HR34 into our lan via ethernet, and have it part of our unsupport whole-home set up.

Will that work? Thanks!

Depends. From what I've gleaned the HR34 will work fine via Ethernet but the HR34 requires a SWM (single wire multiswitch) instead of the older multiswitch. If your DVRs currently have 2 coax lines to them (one per tuner) then you will need swap out your multiswitch to SWM.

At that point you should consider just letting Direct TV drive the bus for you and put it up on DECA. Negotiate the price and enjoy.

If you are single line per DVR and a single line down from the dish then you'll need a new LNB assy (if not dish) with 4 lines down to a SWM16 as your tuner count would exceed the SWM8 dish or the SWM8 line module.

Don "unsupported can be exciting" Bolton

 

[pappy97]

Depends. From what I've gleaned the HR34 will work fine via Ethernet but the HR34 requires a SWM (single wire multiswitch) instead of the older multiswitch. If your DVRs currently have 2 coax lines to them (one per tuner) then you will need swap out your multiswitch to SWM.

At that point you should consider just letting Direct TV drive the bus for you and put it up on DECA. Negotiate the price and enjoy.

If you are single line per DVR and a single line down from the dish then you'll need a new LNB assy (if not dish) with 4 lines down to a SWM16 as your tuner count would exceed the SWM8 dish or the SWM8 line module.
Don "unsupported can be exciting" Bolton

The bolded describes me. I don't need 9 total tuners, so maybe I'll just upgrade the HD receiver to a regular dual tuner HD-DVR. Then I'll have only 6 tuners and can keep my existing SWM8 set up, correct?

 

[lugnutathome]

The bolded describes me. I don't need 9 total tuners, so maybe I'll just upgrade the HD receiver to a regular dual tuner HD-DVR. Then I'll have only 6 tuners and can keep my existing SWM8 set up, correct?

You are correct. That would work fine. The HR34 is an optimal device for a 4 TV household using 3 HD stand alone receivers and the one 5 tuner DVR. Once true RVU clients exist this thing will *rock* for a whole lot of households!

It's downside is that it becomes a single point of failure for all the DVR content distribution. The multiple "traditional" DVR landscape is more "hands on" to keep recordings scheduled and distributed but provides possible redundancy and removes the single point of failure from the household.

Don "its all possible with the right amount of time, money, and obsessiveness" Bolton

 

[Jerry_K]

One other downside to single HR34 versus three HD DVRs is that you then are limited to 100 versus 150 Series Links, and you are limited to 2T storage versus 6T storage. And just five tuners versus 6. Just saying.