Does not record complete program I use the WD DVR Expander with a SA 8300HD. I have had it for less than a month, and on occasion it does not record the entire program. It starts recording and the recording indicator is even lit on the 8300HD, but then afterwards I pull up my list and only part of the show is available to view. It always records the beginning, but seems to stop after a random amount of time. Has anyone else had this issue? Is there a fix? Since I have already recorded quite a bit of content taking it back to the store is a last resort. Does not record complete program I use the WD DVR Expander with a SA 8300HD. I have had it for less than a month, and on occasion it does not record the entire program. It starts recording and the... » Read More Does not record complete program I use the WD DVR Expander with a SA 8300HD. I have had it for less than a month, and on occasion it does not record the entire program. It starts recording and the recording indicator is even lit on the 8300HD, but then afterwards I pull up my list and only part of the show is available to view. It always records the beginning, but seems to stop after a random amount of time. Has anyone else had this issue? Is there a fix? Since I have already recorded quite a bit of content taking it back to the store is a last resort. « Show Less
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I'm having the same problem with the 1TB my dvr expander. Let me know if you found a fix. I've had a 500gb on my other sa 8300 hd and never had an issue.
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I was JUST reading through some of the reviews and one of the folks seemed to list this exact problem - though they were using a Tivo. It seems too similar an issue to be an anomaly: sadly the reviewer determined that after unplugging the drive and starting his DVR back up again, all of the problems vanished, leading him to the conclusion that it was the drive and NOT the DVR. Your best bet is to do the same - remove the drive and see if the DVR functions normally. If so, then you know the drive is faulty. Good luck!
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Amazon's page still says it's not available, but I just received mine yesterday (from Amazon). So far, so good. Plug it in, restart your TiVo, and 5-10 minutes later you got a gajillion hours of HD recording (okay, I think it's 240 hours, but still). One little bummer, you can't cart the drive from TiVo to TiVo (or computer) to transfer your shows. It says it records some of the show in the internal drive and some on the external, so no complete shows are on the external. No big deal I guess.
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Mine does not seem to disk over write once full. I recently had to erase all to free space as it appeared to have stopped recording. Since then I´ve been careful to erase once in a while and haven't let it go to full again so I don´t know if it was an isolated incident or if not over writing is the rule. For the rest, it works very well.
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Tivo 3 should support just about any eSATA driveTivo HD will only support the WD DVR Expander out of the box. They can be hacked to use any drive, but it voids the warranty.There is supposedly a file limitation with Tivos that doesn't allow them to read more than about 1.2TB of space. Whether this will be updated is unknown.The SA 8300HD supports regular eSATA drives, but there are some models that just don't work.
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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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With remote control, and without hard drive. And Dvr was not D1, it records with CIF only. I still wonder why they claim still it's D1. They never answered my complains about it.If it was D1 i would give it 5 stars.
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The recorder only has 13 hours of HD recording space. Resolution can not be changed on recorder to save space. Only issue I had was my time zone would go to Atlantic time zone. I would check it once a month to make sure it was in the Central time zone.
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Karen, I cannot find anything in any descriptions that say it records in HD, but it sure looks like it does to me. The only reference I can find about it's HD is it "supports full hd 1080p upconversion". I tape HD shows onto the hard drive, edit out segments that I don't want, then I burn them to a DVD. I never record directly to the DVD, because I like to edit first, but I'm sure it would work beautifully. The quality of the DVDs cut from the hard drive is, in my opinion, excellent but I can't absolutely swear they're technically HD. I would recommend the product, it's the best recorder I've ever had. I hope my comments have helped a little. Larry Karen, I cannot find anything in any descriptions that say it records in HD, but it sure looks like it does to me. The only reference I can find about it's HD is it "supports full hd 1080p upconversion". I tape HD shows onto the hard drive, edit out segments that I don't want, then I burn them to a DVD. I never record directly to the DVD, because I like to edit first, but I'm sure it would work beautifully. The quality of the DVDs cut from the hard drive is, in my opinion, excellent but I can't absolutely swear they're technically HD. I would recommend the product, it's the best... » Read More Karen, I cannot find anything in any descriptions that say it records in HD, but it sure looks like it does to me. The only reference I can find about it's HD is it "supports full hd 1080p upconversion". I tape HD shows onto the hard drive, edit out segments that I don't want, then I burn them to a DVD. I never record directly to the DVD, because I like to edit first, but I'm sure it would work beautifully. The quality of the DVDs cut from the hard drive is, in my opinion, excellent but I can't absolutely swear they're technically HD. I would recommend the product, it's the best recorder I've ever had. I hope my comments have helped a little. Larry « Show Less
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no idea, you can record all the channels but you will not be able to look at each one in full screen on a DVR. The unit record up to 30 days so no need to record on another DVR ?
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Actually, this unit is similar to an earlier model that I have had for years, and you should be able to watch a program on the hard drive while it is recording another program. You would not be able to record a program and watch a different program that has not been prerecorded on your hard drive unless it had two tuners. But if you are watching a program that is on the hard drive and had been recorded earlier, it should not affect the ability of the unit to record using its tuner. Since I don't have this unit, I can't really say conclusively.
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I have been unable to set the unit to automatically overwrite old data when the card is full. The camera will either let me record in a (3/5/10) minute loop, or record continuously until the card is full at which point it stops recording.
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John:I bought this unit for my husband for Christmas and I just checked with him. He said that you can record directly from the TV into this unit. If you want to save the program after you have watched it, you need to save it to a disc while recording or once you watch it, it automatically deletes
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Mine arrived on Tuesday (11/27) and I'm having mixed results. I mainly want it as a portable DVR (I bought it with the docking station) and sometimes it works and other times I can't even see the recording tab to select it. It was great watching Monday night's Heros while I was riding the train yesterday (it was saved to my Comcast DVR on Monday and I transferred it to the 705 on Tuesday evening), and I was able to hook up a card reader to transfer photos from my camera flash cards (after updating the firmware), so I've had some success. The overall problem is poor documentation, and I'm hoping to resolve my problems by playing with it this weekend. Mine arrived on Tuesday (11/27) and I'm having mixed results. I mainly want it as a portable DVR (I bought it with the docking station) and sometimes it works and other times I can't even see the recording tab to select it. It was great watching Monday night's Heros while I was riding the train yesterday (it was saved to my Comcast DVR on Monday and I transferred it to the 705 on Tuesday evening), and I was able to hook up a card reader to transfer photos from my camera flash cards (after updating the firmware), so I've had some success. The overall problem is poor documentation, and I'm... » Read More Mine arrived on Tuesday (11/27) and I'm having mixed results. I mainly want it as a portable DVR (I bought it with the docking station) and sometimes it works and other times I can't even see the recording tab to select it. It was great watching Monday night's Heros while I was riding the train yesterday (it was saved to my Comcast DVR on Monday and I transferred it to the 705 on Tuesday evening), and I was able to hook up a card reader to transfer photos from my camera flash cards (after updating the firmware), so I've had some success. The overall problem is poor documentation, and I'm hoping to resolve my problems by playing with it this weekend. « Show Less
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I have an older Direct TV DVR (model HR-20-100S). Will this HD work for me? Also, can I make it the default HD, to avoid using the lousy internal HD in the Direct TV DVR? (I have had about 10 crash and burn on me over a 10 year period, and lost hundreds of recorded programs.I would pay extra if they had a reliable solid state HD as an option).
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FYIThe Toshiba DR400 manual says it will record content at the correct (source) aspect on DVD-RW but "always at 4:3 on DVR+RW/ +R."Go figure. Might be something to look into.
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You are correct the DVR does not come with a hard drive, the hard drive is your typical SATA style hard drive, this is why it only costs a hundred bucks, so you have to install the hardrive and after it is installed, there is an option for formatting it, which you will have to do. Its simple to do, but you void your warranty after opening the box, so that is the kicker.
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While watching from (or via) the Magnavox (output to my TV), I am only able to watch a program pre-recorded on the HDD/DVR at the same time that another program is being recorded. Cannot tune to more than one station at a time (to record one, while attempting to watch another). . .Not sure I quite understand J. Kavanaugh's answer, but sounds like something cool to learn to do!