Buying for Dish VIP522 DVR...How many hrs of HD recording does 750gb get me? As in my topic line, I want to know how many recording hours in HiDef can I get out of a 750gb hard drive?
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The 39.99 fee is to turn a regular receiver into a DVR when an external HD is attached. The fee also unlocks a feature on DVR receivers to have expanded storage with an external drive. It's a one time fee, and for those with a non-DVR receiver, they pay the fee once and have no monthly dvr fee.
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What do you have to hookup in to to record from DVR? Do you hook dvr to dvd player only? Does Cable have to run thru the DVD player and tv? I've tried a couple times and nothing is recording. Also, how do you finalize if you are choosing record without setting it up.
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Hello Cole,How much video you can store on your DVR's hard drive depends on several factors. Please follow this link to determine how many days of footage you can get based on your resolution settings: http://qsee.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14/kw/how%20long%20will%20my%20dvr%20record%3F
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Yes! You can use a 2 TB Hard Drive. I was advised by tech support that 2 TB is the max at this time.Be aware that it will slow your receiver down. No problems with quality or picture. However, there is a double to triple time delay when I am searching through guide or changing channels on my Directv DVR HD Model 24, 500 GB, Internal Hard Drive.That is not a problem for me. It is worth it for the extra space. I record a lot of football games on the football ticket. This way my wife's shows do not get deleted.
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I have been using it for a Direct TV DVR! It has worked fine until it reached just over 1TB of recording at the remote TV location. This location apparently can not support much beyond this point. It shows the latest recordings & older ones, but not the entire recordings. At the main TV location, the receiver/DVR does seem to support additional content, but everything is slower. ie: switching between channels & programming. The current DVR is 1TB, so that may explain the problem. If the Zmodo recording ability is less than 3 TB there may be a problem of support for additional storage.
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i record 24/7 with 13 cameras and i get 7 days of recording time and it does roll over if hd is full. hope this answers your question
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The recording time is dependent of your setting on your DVR, whether you save more recording time by activating motion detection. And the size HDD you buy. You can leave your system to record non-stop but the amount of recording time is subjective to your HDD size.
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Yes! You can use a 2 TB Hard Drive. I was advised by tech support that 2 TB is the max at this time. Be aware that it will slow your receiver down. No problems with quality or picture. However, there is a double to triple time delay when I am searching through guide or changing channels on my Directv DVR HD Model 24, 500 GB, Internal Hard Drive. That is not a problem for me. It is worth it for the extra space. I record a lot of football games on the football ticket. This way my wife's shows do not get deleted.
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To get 4-hour capacity, you either need DL (dual layer) blank disks (and a recorder that supports DL disks), or you need to record at slower speed (inferior quality). All of the major disk flavors (-R, +R, -RW, and +RW) come in DL variants.
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YES, buy it today if you're a bit computer smart. I (re)record my Dish DVR movies 'to the computer' and never, ever... go to the effort to burn DVDs from these... too much trouble. People should get into burning satelliteDVR to computer, then playback from computer to HDTV, in my opinion anyway. This inexpensive box has 'recorded' many 'premium' dishnet shows via the component cables, no copyprotection issues. Good luck. Lots of terrible reviews .. I may have been lucky but I bought mine from Frys at $200 two years ago.
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I did calculation before. As I can remember, roughly speaking, for a 250GB hard drive(I put a 2.5 inch sata laptop hard drive inside the box), I could make uninterrupted recordings from two channel cameras for 2 weeks long.
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Depending on the size of the media storage connected to the recorder - approximately at 5 to 6 GB per hour for HDTV signal. I have a 750 GB USB drive connected to it and so it can record over 130 hours of TV shows.
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I use Dish for my television reception with regular and HD channels. I have had no problem recordings using the dvr 620 by Toshiba (once I mastered the manual).
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The model listed on Amazon has a 500gb Hard drive. That said, there are various models and configurations from Zmodo. The DVR function allows saving to the internal hard drive or a connected (e.g. Via network) computer.
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You could have just bought a hard disk and installed it in the DVR (it's easy). I got a 500GB hard drive on eBay for $45, and a 4 camera system for $130 so I paid $175 all together.
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I am currently using a Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive, 5400 rpm, and have been for several months. Before than, for almost a year, I used a Seagate Barracuda 2TB drive, 5400 rpm. The 2TB drive is really not recommended, but it worked for me for a year, then gave out. Be aware that these drives may not last as long in this DVR as they last in your desktop. Don't be surprised if you have to replace one after a year.
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As are the camera and the 16 gb sdhc card, I menaged to record 9 min, 1.42 gb, stopping myself when the show ended. I believe that I could record longer. I cant explain what is the difference between us.