How to Activate USB on Dish Network
Dish Network is one of the leading satellite providers within the United States. With the service you can order several additional features, including a DVR. A DVR allows you to record live television and view it later, essentially like a tapeless VCR. However, the DVR only has a specific amount of memory allocated to recording programs, so if you run out of memory you need to connect additional hard drives to the DVR via the USB ports on the hardware.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Contact Dish Network and tell them what you plan on doing. There is going to be a one-time activation fee of $39.99 (as of December 2009) to set up the service. The addition bill is going to appear on your next monthly statement.
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Connect the external hard drives to the DVR via the USB cables. Power on both the hard drive and the DVR.
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Power on the television and press the "Menu" button on your DVR remote. Bring up the storage option and it is going to read your connected hard drive. It may reformat the hard drive, which removes all information currently saved on it.
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While in the storage options, select the "External" hard drive as the default drive to save content to. From now on, when you record content it is placed onto the external hard drive you plugged into the Dish Network DVR via the USB port.
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