Please report your PVR results here.

[boboisno1]

I borrowed this thread idea from our friend Arboristman, even borrowed his words to, how lazzy am I.

report your pvr results here.
let us know what hard drive your using.how easy it is to setup and use.your likes and dislikes about recording and any limitations features/missing features of everything having to do with the personal video recording of the VS HDMAX please.

[boboisno1]

I've read that a Western Digtal Mybook 500 gig works fine right out of the box no formatting needed. I will report more on this as I come across them.

[frank.waldner]

I'm using a Western Digital Passport 160GB. I know the drive is SOLID because I have been using it on my computer for 9 months without problems.

But, my MAX HD doesn't successfully implement the PVR functionality. The recordings are there. Files have a .trp extension and are playable on my PC, but MAX HD can't playback EVER. It starts out OK, but then breaks up after 5-6 minutes and the receiver HANGS. A hard restart is needed. High Def is out of the question as far as PVR functions are concerned.

Another thing I noticed is that you can make a reservation for recording a future broadcast. When you turn off the receiver, a little red 'dial' gets lit up to indicate a scheduled recording will occur. But after the recording, and there are no more reservations, the red 'dial' still displays when the unit if turned off.

In my opnion, PVR functionality is FAR from being user-ready, and needs lots of work and testing.

Note to ViewSat - I would be willing to be a tester for this.

[mr_status]

I'm using a Maxtor 300GB and am having no problems with recording or viewing. I haven't recorded any HD channels with this yet, but I did use an 8GB flash drive and it recorded just fine on an HD channel. Did have a lil problem (the HD Channell) when I needed to fast forward to a certain part. It would do it for a lil while and then all of a sudden would just restart to the beginning (could of just possibly been a problem with the flashdrive). I played around with it a lil and got to the part I wanted to and everything was fine. Had no problems fastforwarding with my external harddrive. Haven't tried to playback on a PC yet but was able to watch my shows from lastnite.