You've got wrong info. Recordings can be played directly from the USB drive and don't have to be first moved back to the receiver's hard drive to be played.
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.
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You've got wrong info. Recordings can be played directly from the USB drive and don't have to be first moved back to the receiver's hard drive to be played.
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.