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baron1 · March 8th, 2008

I have a cheap IN LINE dvd recorder 12 hours of saving time and 1-2-4-6-8 hours of recording and that can be divided up and put on dvd-dvdrw. Naturally putting 1 hour of programing will be better quality than putting 8 hours of programing on 1 dvd. everything going to A/V receiver i can save on recorder while i watch tv from box hooked up to TV on video input 2. Then when i am not doing any type of dvr function i watch everything thru A/V receiver on vedeo 1 input. This is my DVR-PVR setup.

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DiamondSCattle · March 8th, 2008

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Originally Posted by phukewtoo

When I try recording the channel I'm watching the CW goes through the motions and then the picture freezes, I can still hear the the channel but nothing much more than that happens. When I go into USB mode to play back I see the file but it's always zero bytes. As to timeshifting, again, it goes through the motions but not much more. I've tried using both a 30gig WD and SC flash cards ranging in size from 1gig to 4gig. Same results with either recording device. Any ideas?

I don't have any way of testing this, but I wonder if your data throughput isn't quick enough? The CW800 manual didn't have much for requirements, but I see other PVRs require a 7200 RPM drive and full USB 2.0 throughput. Some cheaper thumb drives don't have true 2.0 support, and a small WD drive like that may only be 5800 RPM. I get the occasional small burp with my 7200 RPM, USB 2.0 drive on both the CW800 and my Coolsat.

Rod

bordr_7 · March 12th, 2008

From what i've read it looks like im not the only one using a western digital 250 gb hdd. So im guessing they came out of a DN dvr like mine did? lol. I agree it's not the same as dish's dvr but after a little getting used it'll be great. Time to go watch Jerry w/o the bleeps

phamqtuan2000 · March 13th, 2008

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Originally Posted by phukewtoo

I have been testing my new CW800PVR for almost two weeks and I am pleased with this receiver. I also test a pansat 2700 and I prefer the CW. I bought the CW because of the support and the CW800 specifically for the PVR feature. Unfortunately, I haven't had much sucess with either recording or timeshifting. I beleive I'm doing what I'm suppose to but I'm either not doing somehing right or the feature just doesn't work. The most I've accomplished is record a channel other than the one I'm watching. When I try recording the channel I'm watching the CW goes through the motions and then the picture freezes, I can still hear the the channel but nothing much more than that happens. When I go into USB mode to play back I see the file but it's always zero bytes. As to timeshifting, again, it goes through the motions but not much more. I've tried using both a 30gig WD and SC flash cards ranging in size from 1gig to 4gig. Same results with either recording device. Any ideas?

I have the same problem like you

Knight57 · March 17th, 2008

Hi all the CW800-s is a awesome piece of electronics

I have a WD 320 gig MY Book hooked up to it ,works very well

antivirus6613 · April 20th, 2008

Plugged in my 120gb external drive and recording is a breeze. RW/FF not so much.

the walrus · July 24th, 2008

Hi all just got a cw800 great box, tried to hook up WD my book 500gig says usb device ready, unit reboots, then says no usb drive; works ok with 1gig usb stick and my old laptop 80 gig toshiba 5400 rpm harddrive.
would be great if I could get my 500gig working

hectorj · July 26th, 2008

wish the quality was a bit better

the walrus · September 7th, 2008

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Originally Posted by the walrus

Hi all just got a cw800 great box, tried to hook up WD my book 500gig says usb device ready, unit reboots, then says no usb drive; works ok with 1gig usb stick and my old laptop 80 gig toshiba 5400 rpm harddrive.
would be great if I could get my 500gig working

update: the 80gig only records for 10min then freezes.

bordr_7 · September 7th, 2008

as everybody knows, but don't like to talk about, the 800 is full of memory leaks. Now don't get me wrong just because something has memory leaks doesn't mean it is bad... firefox 2 had huge memory leaks but I still used it.
The 800 is kinda like a special ed kid... go slow with it, don't confuse it by going to fast and it'll do wut u tell it to. In other words after you hit a button on the remote, wait for the box to respond without hitting another button or it'll freeze up on you.

tizic · January 9th, 2009

Hey massive, Have a seagate 500 gb hooked up to my cw 800 and haven't cursed at it yet. Recorded the last UFC fight and the quality was great. Especially coming from a dollar store svideo cable. Only thing is converting my movies to mpeg and getting the proper video size settings.

HorsPlyrBil · January 17th, 2009

I love this receiver and the pvr however the glitch I run into is after it records , when I go back to watch what is recorded the voices are not in sync with the video. I have to play around with FF, RW or Pause in no exact sequence to correct. After that , all good, unless I pause then have to fool around again

This is with 4gb flash 2.0 and a HDD 40gb HDD

Any suggestions?..

Thank You

bordr_7 · January 17th, 2009

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Originally Posted by HorsPlyrBil

I love this receiver and the pvr however the glitch I run into is after it records , when I go back to watch what is recorded the voices are not in sync with the video. I have to play around with FF, RW or Pause in no exact sequence to correct. After that , all good, unless I pause then have to fool around again

This is with 4gb flash 2.0 and a HDD 40gb HDD

Any suggestions?..

Thank You

a good trick to use without getting the audio out of sync is to push f1 then skip forward however far you want. I usually skip forward about 4 minutes on commercials by pushing 400.

Americandodo · March 10th, 2009

CW-800 works great! I only use a 16GB flash stick, but it works great! The brand is an OCZ diesel...just in case someone wanted to know. Anyway, I just plug it in, and then press record.......simple as that, and have yet to have a problem.

ishon · March 21st, 2009

i dont know whats up with my dvr. whenever i start recording the image freezes then my whole system freezes till i disconnect my 8gb flash drive. i have a 4gb and 8gb flashdrives and same problem with both.

**dogmaninvegas** · March 21st, 2009

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Originally Posted by ishon

i dont know whats up with my dvr. whenever i start recording the image freezes then my whole system freezes till i disconnect my 8gb flash drive. i have a 4gb and 8gb flashdrives and same problem with both.

I had a similar problem until I did a hard reboot (the switch on the back.) After that, it worked properly.

caverchris · March 27th, 2009

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Originally Posted by tizic

Hey massive, Have a seagate 500 gb hooked up to my cw 800 and haven't cursed at it yet. Recorded the last UFC fight and the quality was great. Especially coming from a dollar store svideo cable. Only thing is converting my movies to mpeg and getting the proper video size settings.

tizic,
I have a Seagate FreeAgent 500 gb hooked up that I got last weekend. I've not had any luck recording off the EPG when I'm not around (timer recording I guess). Have you been able to do this? Did you have to turn off the Standby mode in your drive?
Any help or ideas would be great. Thanks!

tizic · March 28th, 2009

Hey caverchris, 1st your your freeagent should be formatted to fat32 for your cw 800 to read it your hdd, 2nd You should turn the power saver to off (never) in the options. 3rd Make sure you sure cw800 pvr is on beacuse it won't record when its off. Follow these steps and u should be alright, if not just holla back.

caverchris · March 28th, 2009

I actually found a NTFS thread so I won't repeat it all here but NTFS is working on my CW-800. Did the other stuff now it's working fine, thanks tizic. For anyone interested here is the NTFS/CW-800 thread: http://www.abadss.com/forum/807-cw-8...-cw-units.html

kanus · March 31st, 2009

I originally had a generic HD hooked up to my CW800 with mixed results. It always worked with manual recording but I often had problems playing back recordings scheduled from the epg. I eventually gave up on the PVR function as I decided to use my HD with another receiver which worked flawlessly with the same HD.

Recently, I started using an 8GB Kingston Data Traveler with my CW800 and it's been working flawlessly. I'm not sure if this is due to improvements in the bins or if the CW800 works better with my flash drive than with my HD.

I agree FF and RW is a bit crude. The other feature I would really like is to be able to set bookmarks in a recording. Often, I am unable to watch a complete recording without interruption. I find it frustrating to have to FF half the way through a program to reach the point where I stopped watching.

It may not be the best PVR but it works for me.