On Wed, June 9, 2010 7:02 pm, Hart Larry wrote: I have sent you the details off list. Ecasound does have a learning curve but it also has an extremely helpful community of active users. That sounds like a fairly expensive solution as sd cards are not as cheap as tape or CD/DVD. If you are not intending to move around a lot and already have a computer that you can connect to the dish then I suggest working with ecasound as it will save you a lot of time in the long run. You will be able to fully automate the process of recording, editing out advertising and even burning to cd/dvd on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. What kind of volume of data are you intending to record? 30 mins per day or 24 hours per day? If the latter you may want to also look into compressing with ogg or flac. There are several people using ecasound to manage this procedure. Combined with a cront job you can have it fully automated so all you have to do is remember to replace the DVD on a regular basis. You can even make it pop out the tray when it needs a new disk and send a daily email with a status report if you want. Depending on the sound card that you have you can record at pretty much any bit rate you want. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd.