A Pleasant Surprise

re: A Pleasant Surprise

Larry Seltzer — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:56:26 GMT

Any chance you could get with the Windows Media Connect people and get a list of whoise set-top boxes do this?

I have Verizon FiOS, and the set-top boxes are already TCP/IP clients on the LAN, but I put an internal firewall between them and the rest of my network. Don't trust them, but I might reconsider if there were some reason.

re: A Pleasant Surprise

Nascar_Joe — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:09:30 GMT

I saw that ethernet port and was too chicken to plug in. Directtv doing something right.. Very happy to hear it just works... I have 2 HR-20's and so happens I have already run the Cat 6 to their locations...

Thanks for the info! I am a big fan of the blog and the new Home Server!!!

re: A Pleasant Surprise

mbuonaccorsi — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:42:59 GMT

You're lucking the HR20 didn't crash or freeze when you were doing that. The last three times I checked out that menu option it screwed my receiver up royally. Had to reboot it.

The feature is nice but it's still considered beta.

re: A Pleasant Surprise

pesweet — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:09:20 GMT

DirecTV is rolling out an update this week to support Video On Demand for the HR20-700.

re: A Pleasant Surprise

freitasm — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:12:51 GMT

I posted a comment yesterday but it never showed up...

It is nice WHS works with media players, but I have had no luck at all with Windows Media Player 11 on Windows Vista...

re: A Pleasant Surprise

msekolpsu — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:40:52 GMT

Is there any trick in getting this to work? I'm running Windows Home server, copied some music and photos in and also enabled Media Sharing. I set my HR20 with a static IP, verified internet connectivity, but no extra menu is appearing.