The Official R5000-HD Technical Status Discussion - Page 11

videolover

You can easly record everything out of the R5000 Dish 6000 unit. Both satellite and OTA. No restrictions... No fuss....

Steve

thanks guys

I thought I'd update this. The new Dish 6000 software works fine. It turns out I had to have my R5000HD modified for the 'hardware reset problem'. I have one of the original units and it needed an etch cut and wire added. Everthing is working fine now. Version 1.7 of the R5000HD app fixed the timer recording problems I was having

Mark

Was there any costs involved from Nextcom for this modification?

Steve

Does anyone know what happens if you try to record sd (dish) material with this mod?

SD records just fine from a Dish 6000 and R5000 mod. John

xsrsmithx, actually I did the mod myself but Nexcom offered to do it for free.

Marj

ctdish, do all of the SD channels on a Dish 6000 have digital audio?

I always thought they didn't but maybe that was just the Dish 5000.

Mark

All Dish channels have digital audio. Most SD channels do not have AC3 audio, which is the standard for ATSC. ATSC is the US standard broadcast digital TV. This can be a problem for some playback devices, but software players and many HDTV hardware types can play the non AC3 digital audio. John

I posted this same question in the other thread, but thought it meant sense to post in the technical thread too...


Got to ask the question - will it now be possible to utilize this inconjuction with SageTV? I would love to be able to schedule programming withing Sage. Right now I use Sage to record SD material via S-video from my DirecTV box. It would be great to do this using R5000. Obviously I would also use to schedule HD recordings too.

The beta DVR ver 2.0 is back up on the web site now. It works great...

Steve

Do you have a DVHS to record to? It will be interesting to here from users' experience recording to DVHS.

Darin

I have run a few test and it seems to work real good with the new beta software. I have a Dish 6000 and a JVC 30000 recorder. First test was to schedule a record to both the hard drive and the JVC recorder at the same time. The second was just to schedule a recording to the JVC only. Both tests worked perfectly. My computer is not beefy enough to get smooth playback with the new internal viewer feature using the Elecard decoder. I get a jerky playback with intermitent sound. It's good enough to see that it either got recorded on the hard drive or the JVC. I'm able to start, stop, pause, fast forward, rewind, play and record from the JVC with the new tape control panel GUI. I can also play back .ts files from the hard drive from there and see live satelite broadcasts in the viewer with the media player in the control panel. I have not tried using the networking yet.

Overall, I am very impressed. Great job. It just keeps getting better...

Steve

Did you get glitch free results steve?? sounds great!!

-Gary

Gary

The channels that I recorded were two of the new Voom channels and they played back glitch free..

Steve

Steve Please do share if you have tried using the new D-VHS features in the R5000 software

anyone else you are welcome to share D-VHS R5000 info also

-Gary

Would anyone care to report what speeed PC they have found to work successfully with the playback software, and whether or not it was over a network?

Could anyone report results playing .ts files recorded with the R5000-HD over a network with a MyHD card?

Thanks,
Kevin

I play all my R5000 captures over a network using the MyHD MDP100. No problems whatsoever.

I just upgraded my R5000 DVR to the new beta 2.0 version and scheduled an overnight recording of "House of Sand and Fog" on HBO (fabulous movie for those of you who haven't seen it, starring among others the phenomenally incredible Jennifer Connelly) directly to tape using my DTC-100 R5000 modded unit hooked to a Mits 1100U DVHS deck. I watched the tape tonight and it was perfect! Finally I now have a worthy successor to my old Dish 5000 recording setup. This should be the final nail in the coffin of 169time and its kludgy setup. I'm so glad now that I was an early adopter of Nextcom's solution and had the patience to wait on them to upgrade the software to allow direct to tape streaming. It's just too bad that D* is giving us only HDLite rather than full bandwidth HD to record!

When I hear this from a Dish Network customer I am switching over ASAP

Oh and I agree 100% about Connelly and "House of Sand and Fog", don't forget Mr. Kingsley though

-Gary

I use the MyHD 120 and it plays perfectly over a network from a Terastion NAS. Playback is perfect. It is also perfect using a Roku HD1000 which is what I use almost exclusively because it plays perfect as well and is as easy to use as a VCR/DVD Player, small, quite, and just less hassle than a PC for everyday playback. Also you can ff/rew which I can't do with the MyHD software. With the Roku just make sure you use the latest firmare and MPlay.

Darin

Darin what source are you recording that plays back perfect on the roku and myhd, Dish?? Directv?? cband??

-Gary

Recording from CBand and Starchoice both......

Darin

Up and running on Dish with HDPak and Voom originals, and things are a rockin'. Running like a champ. Now, to find a couple of exxtra petabytes of free space.....

I tried to add Voom today but was told I had to be a prior Voom customer.

Anyone have a workaround?

Wazoo

Wazoo, Call 1-800-969-4388, tell the CSR: I own my Dish HD receiver(s), I have a second dish pointed to the 61.5 degree satellite and I want to add the Voom HD PAK to my Dish Network HD PAK.

I'll give that a shot... thanks!

Wazoo

Has anyone had success with the new 2.0beta of running a server/client setup with the PVR?

I have it set up correctly I believe as both the server and the client say that they recognize each other. However, when I click record on the client side, I get a popup asking what to do with tvpi.asp. At first, I said to OPEN it.... but that launched Frontpage. So I re-associated the file to the PVR program but nothing happens when I open it.

Can't find dox on this and am stuck.

Any help appreciated as I'm a newbie to the RD5000.

Thanks!

Wazoo