recording on 500gb harddrives

I cant record on my usb powered harddrive anymore. I have rung dish tv about this and they have told me it because of the last update it took power from the usb leaving it not powerful enough to run the hard drive. well the last update was months ago and this is a new problem so go figure. I bought my dish tv recorder so I could record. I feel let down and ripped off as the product does not do as stated so am entitled to a full refund as consumer law says its not fit for purpose. It would be good if dish tv would just fix the problem so I can record again and watch the movies I have in storage. never had these problems with good old analog and a vcr ...

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Permalink Reply by willis on June 24, 2014 at 2:56

The usb power capability is standard 500ma or 1/2 amp and is hardware fixed
What model recorder?
2 usb sockets?
Will the drive work in the computer?

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Permalink Reply by kara richards on July 23, 2014 at 21:13

s7070r only 1 usb socket and yes drive works on computer it is a western digital I have run fault checks on it and all is ok will record on usb stick but that sucks as you can only record a few programs

willis said:

The usb power capability is standard 500ma or 1/2 amp and is hardware fixed
What model recorder?
2 usb sockets?
Will the drive work in the computer?

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Permalink Reply by willis on July 24, 2014 at 0:03

Does the ext drive have a power pack with it?
If not may have scorched internal usb chip

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Permalink Reply by kara richards on July 24, 2014 at 20:51

it doesn't but hard drive works on computer would it be able to do this if internal chip damaged?

willis said:

Does the ext drive have a power pack with it?
If not may have scorched internal usb chip

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Permalink Reply by willis on July 25, 2014 at 0:03

The usb chip in sat box
Price some 32&64gB usb drives on trademe or the warehouse in the meantime
Programmes are often 1-1.6gb so 64gb should do about 40

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Permalink Reply by David Lipscombe on July 25, 2014 at 12:47

Kara have you tried to use your old recording devices to record the programs that you want to view later ? , I have my 2 boxes set up with 3x 1 in 2 out rca plugs 1 leads to the tv and the other goes into the recorder those plugs are fitted to back of the box and you use the timer on the box for start and finish and do the same for your recorder and if you want to view another channel pick up cheap second hand box and use that to view what you want that is on at same time.

Also if you only have a single av in put in the back of you tv you can get a AV input box from Jaycar electrionics for around $60.00 , this can handle 4 devices going into the Tv

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Permalink Reply by willis on July 25, 2014 at 23:25

What sort of recorder?
Got 4 way av box on t ms for $ 25

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Permalink Reply by David Lipscombe on July 26, 2014 at 15:46

Either your VCR or DVD Recorder just plug your set top box into the AV ports in the back of them and set the timer on both and away you go.

The AV Box that I got from Jaycar came with a remote so you don't have to get up and switch it over and it also has the S-Video ports for your DVD player

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Permalink Reply by kara richards on July 29, 2014 at 22:23

Hi Guys

Thanks for your replies and offers of help although I have no idea what you have been talking about with the av etc any way I have been in touch dish tv and they have provided a software fix which has now resolved our issues yahoo can now record on freeveiw again!!

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Permalink Reply by kara richards on July 29, 2014 at 22:41

ok now I have a new problem, when my freeveiw wasn't working I transferred my data store in hard drive to be able to run a hard drive test. and now I want to reinstall these from my pc to hard drive but they are not showing up my hard drive via freeveiw but when I connect to pc they are there what the??