Dishnetwork Question Hard Drive programming

[DisneyScraps]

My contract is up with Dish ThIS month. I am thinking of canceling them because I hate, hate, HATE them.

Question is I recorded a lot of cooking shows on my DVR and transferred then to a hard drive connected to my TV. If I cancel Dish what happens to those programs? Will I still be able to watch them?

Thanks!

Lisa

 

[CowboyCO]

Just unplug the dish cable from your receiver and see if you can access the DVR. You probably can still watch from the DVR.

Why do you hate DISH -- I've been with them for a decade and I have found their customer service to be excellent.

 

[Gillennj]

I switched from Dish to DirectTV 2 years ago, and at that time, anything recorded on a Dish DVR or external hard drive connected to the DVR was encrypted, so you could transfer them digitally to any other device--well you might be able to transfer, just not watch them on any other device. Things may have changed since then, but I doubt it.

I have a DVD recorder that I use to record off the signal coming from the DVR, sort of like a VCR. I lose quality, and it won't record in HD, but most of what I want to keep I am not really worried about high quality picture.