the $39.99 enabling fee is also a "one time" fee on a per account basis (covering multiple receivers in a given household). There is also no limitation to the number of external drives that may be used. The initial firmware version enabling external storage currently limits drives to a maximum of 750GB in size and only a single drive may be connected at one time, however Dish has mentioned that future firmware upgrades will allow the use of larger drives (It was demonstrated at a satellite convention using a 1TB drive), and USB hubs enabling multiple drives to connect simultaneously.
Can you plug the external drive back into your PC to take the video files and watch them from the PC? it seems ever one has left this little detail out?
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SpenceJT @ Aug 15th 2007 11:05PM
the $39.99 enabling fee is also a "one time" fee on a per account basis (covering multiple receivers in a given household). There is also no limitation to the number of external drives that may be used. The initial firmware version enabling external storage currently limits drives to a maximum of 750GB in size and only a single drive may be connected at one time, however Dish has mentioned that future firmware upgrades will allow the use of larger drives (It was demonstrated at a satellite convention using a 1TB drive), and USB hubs enabling multiple drives to connect simultaneously.
Greg Caulder @ Aug 16th 2007 12:39AM
Can you plug the external drive back into your PC to take the video files and watch them from the PC? it seems ever one has left this little detail out?