As a cable customer who keeps thinking about switching to satellite, I must say that I am constantly deterred by the unending threads about the seemingly unending problems with the dish DVR's, both on this forum and on dbs.com. The problem threads are so prevalent as to be intimidating. I can...

I am a cable customer with a Panasonic E80 hard drive DVD recorder who is considering moving to E* and a DVR 522. My goal is to have certain sports programs end up on my E80 hard drive (for archiving to disk) after passing through the 522 for decoding, all in the most time-efficient manner...