Why does my Direct TV DVR have USB ports?

Our DVR (Dish TV) has a USB port for connecting an external hard drive to increase storage. we have a 1 TB drive which will hold maybe 100 movies.

appropriate now, no pay service assist you to replica content cloth recorded on their DVR off of it, digitally, which includes over USB. the main they might use it for, is an enter gadget to characteristic to the distant, serial port for HT administration, or a flash force to play media off of, yet few are doing that. to repeat the recordings, you ought to use the analog hollow, via copying the A/V from the container to a minimum of a few thing that information A/V.

I thin it's dedicated. I have a wireless receiver hooked to my DVR and I think that went into the USB.