DirecTV HD DVR - HR20/HR21/HR22/HR23 Master Topic - Page 99  

Stand-alone DVD or video capture card from the SD output is about all there is.

Not looking forward to getting this all working tonight. At least I have my HTPCs to watch all local HD stations with if things aren't working.

If you are okay with downconverting, you you could use S-video/Composite out to a video capture card on a PC to capture recordings from your HR-20. It would have to be done in real time of course. I have an old Hauppage PVR-150 that I use for these kinds of tasks (it captures with S-video in straight to mpeg-2). Then use your preferred software for writing to dvd...

SO last Thursday I was scheduled for installation and all went well until I figured out the Tech had no idea I wanted HR-22's. He had one and only one and I needed two. Of course I had called DTV before and they had no idea what I was going to receive(I know this is normal) so I called the installation company and spoke to a nice young lady and was told and I quote "Oh yes SIr absoloutely, you will be getting the HR-22's it is on our work-order". Well not to go on about that but he had a co-worker close by and he brought the other one.

SO the day of installation went ok. Later that afternoon the HR-22 in the bedroom would not accept remote inputs. SO I reset it, it got to 97% and froze for over 15 minuets. So I re-set it again, it froze up from the beginning. I unplugged it, then it re-set and worked for about maybe 5 mikes and froze up again, The picture was frozen but I still had sound. The channels would change (I could hear the new channel) but no picture, no response to the remote nothing. Called DTV and they set up a tech appointment for today. I have to say it sucked to have a brand new tv service and have NO use of it over the weekend.

Got a new one installed today and so far all is well. The Tech said point blank that they have a lot of problems with the DVR's with recording but not showing the recording, and constantly having to re-boot the boxes, which I have to say is a painfully long process.

I have to say when it is all working it is good, but it has been a rough beginning to say the least.

Had to reset my -700 over the weekend and again today, the -100 has been reset twice, the first time was so so, some channels were not available, so I did a second RBR and it is now frozen UGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

Problem should be corrected now.

READ.

Funny. I just read the fix and sure enough, on my slingplayer, is my receiver rebooting itself.

Both of mine are resetting now on their own

both of mine have been reset. And although I have guide data days into the future, and all my shows seem to be listed in the prioritizer, I don't have any scheduled recording past tomorrow on either receiver in the todo list... Anybody else have this?

I'm a new HR21 user, switched from Tivo. I'm almost out of space, how do I know what is going to be deleted next? On my tivo I would turn off folders and look sort by date, but I don't see a way to do this o the HR21.

Press the yellow button when you are in your recording listings. You can actually have it sort by which programs are going to expire and many other ways...

Yes, same thing, it only lists shows to be recorded today, nothing past that.

Hello All.

I just got the HR 22.

I noticed on the back panel that there isn't an input for OTA signals. Is there a way to combine one of the Sat inputs and then split it back out again or am I just totally out of luck and this killer antenna that I had put in my attic about 4 years ago to get OTA HD before DTV got around to getting locals in HD is essentially an albatross?

Thanks.

Hey All.

Sorry. Disregard. I hadn't noticed that this wasn't an HR 22 thread. For what it's worth though I found an AM-21 that will allow me to hook up my antenna to the HR 22.

Thanks.

We've had an HR22 for about 3 weeks, now. It has been great, though it has had the glitch of not responding twice. I'm keeping an eye on it's performance, as we went through 4 HD receivers (have a 2nd room that never had a problem) before getting a good one. But this is our first DVR of any kind. Granted, my husband seems to be going for the fastest-harddrive-fill-of-all-time record. I've created a monster!

Here's my question, and forgive if it's been asked elsewhere... what is Dtv's "logic" in making the internal drive wipe clean if you hook up an external drive??? If you can't extract content to begin with, what is the point of this? Even so, if you used an external drive, then disconnected it, would the content not still be on the external drive, albeit in it's own format (making it easier to extract from if that was your goal)? So does this mean if you use an external drive, disconnect for whatever reason, then reconnect later, that it will reformat the external drive again?

I just don't get the way these companies think sometimes. I can't understand how leaving the internal drive intact (even if not available) while an external drive is used could be seen as a con by Dtv. It only encourages hacking to be able to keep your content, does it not? Seems to me that if Dtv had ANY brains on this issue, that they would keep the internal drive intact and offer STORAGE UPGRADES FOR MORE REVENUE! Sorry for the rant, but it just seems bass ackwards to me. Still, if someone has any explanations, or even theories about this, I'd like to hear them.

That's what I would think, but I think the folders mess it up. I tried saying sort by expiration date but it's still an alphabetical list. I can expand each folder and scroll through and look for exclamation marks, but I don't see any easy way to see what's going to be deleted next.

Is there an internal temperature limit that I should be aware of? I have an HR20 and it shows an internal temp of 98 degrees, should I be worried?

Also, does anyone else have to reset their box every so often because of un-responsiveness?

- WTF? I just wanted to vent a little. I was away all weekend for a wedding in Cape Cod. Came back tonight and saw the recording light on between 8:00PM and 10:00PM. Normal. I went to go watch Heroes, Terminator and Prison Break and the receiver is stuck. I reset it and find out that it's been recording MGM for 20 hours and it did not record anything else today. I recorded one Bond movie and the receiver gets stuck on that channel recording.

The engineer's answer would be "to make it easier on the software programmer" so they do not have to write an OS for a two drive system. Also, they want to start with a clean drive so no glitches will cause problems. Some DVDRs keep the contents when you add a drive, some do not and wipe the drive clean so it is not universal. My Polaroid recorder allows multiple swaps with no problems while the Phillips will wipe everything clean.

I agree, that the best way would be for direct to sell an "add on storage device" which would complement the DVR and add storage.

I don't know of a specific limit, but I think 98 deg. is very good. My HR20 was 125 degrees (in a 82-86 deg. room) until I added a laptop fan, which brought it down to 110 deg.

I had to reset my HR20 yesterday, but that was the first time in about 4 months that that has happened.

Edit: Checking in over at dbstalk.com, I see that many, many people had to reset their HR2xs yesterday -- some problem with the guide data. It was a special situation.

That is relatively cool for the internal temperature. They often run over 110° F.

I know there is a separate HR-22 thread:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1059870

Should that thread be merged into this one, and simply title the thread "HR2X" or "HR20/HR21/HR22"?

I have the HR21 networked and was enjoying the media share feature using WMP11, even though I do not have any ViiV devices, until this past weekend. Following the "upgrades" the media share feature is not working. Can any of you help? My computer can see the DVR, I have opened the appropriate ports in Norton firewall, I have set my music folder for sharing. On the TV, I do see the option for Music, Pictures and Video, I can select the computer, the music folder and then when I select the artist or album or any other option the DVR tells me there are no files in that folder. Any thoughts?

"It shouldn't"

The 22 is to be just a 20/21 with a larger drive.
Your software [national release] may be a bit behind, but DirecTV is working on a version that runs on all of them.
Switching between internal & eSATA drives "shouldn't" cause the drive to reformat. This doesn't mean there haven't been issues, but only to say it wasn't "by design". Blank drive will format and on boot up the drive will go through a disk check. If there is a problem with the files [corruption] then the drive will "repair" itself.
Drives do get "coded" to the receiver, so they can't be swapped between reveivers.

Topics merged, topic title changed.

Hello...new problem for me...whenever I am recording one high def channel on my HR21, SOMETIMES, when I try to tune to another HD channel (seems to only happen when trying to tune to another HD channel), I get "771...Searching for signal on Sat In 1"
Some HD cjhannels I can watch OK while recording another (ie, ESPN2HD), but cannot get others (ie, local HD's, CNNHD, ESPNHD, etc)...why are these things so troublesome?

I fought with problems with WMP11 for months before abandoning it and downloading TVersity--only problems I have had since are intermittent drops while streaming music, which I actually believe to be a network reliability problem, not a DVR problem.

That is the big mystery.
Some [like myself] don't have too many problems, yet others can't get the damn thing to behave.
771 on SAT #1 is because it's not getting a signal [yeah, I know.. DUH].
The "why", could be several things. I know I've gone through EVERY cable connection and made sure they all are "snug" with a 7/16 wrench. Every time I have an installer do any work, I go back over the connections and have always found at least one "not snug". They shouldn't be "tight" as all they need to be is 25 in/lbs [which is only "snug" in my book].
Of course I learned this after my "upgrade" [from the installer from hell, but that's another story] as I has 771 on one receiver and found the cables at the LNB weren't even close to being "snug".

I get the 771 messages once every 2 weeks or so on my HR20-700. I have other boxes (H20's) in the house that can tune to the channel giving me the 771 message on the HR20.
i.e. Channel 276 gives me 771 on the HR20, but works fine on an H20.
So I know the dish is not the problem.
All I do is do a RBR and wait the painful 15 minutes for a re-boot, and all 771 message are gone.
I have learned to live with it.

There jsut seems to be no rhyme or reason to it...very shortly after I posted this message (I doid not reset the HR21 because it was recording something), no problems tuning in the hD channels while recording...It's maddening!