Personal Video Player that encodes to Windows Media and is compatible with Dish Network DVR?

Question

I am looking for a PVP that encodes to Windows Media (for compatibility with my XBOX 360) and is also compatible with my Dish Network DVR Receiver. What I want to do is record my favorite shows and movies with my Dish Network 625 Receiver, then transfer them to a PVP for portability, then transfer them to an external hard drive to be stored and watched whenever I want on my XBOX 360. I have looked at the pocketdish website and read lots of other stuff online, but I can not find the answers that I seek.
1. Do any of the PVP's encode into WMV?
2. Once I have recorded video to a PVP can it then be transferred to a computer or is it just stuck on the PVP?
3. Does anybody have any real experience doing the things I am asking?
Thanks

Answer 1

A PVP, as the name says, is a player, not a recorder.
A Dish network receiver records in MPEG format.
So, lots of incompatible formats here.

One possible way for this to work is the following.
a) Record a show on your Dish receiver
b) Transfer those recordings to a PC (you will need a video capture card or a cheap USB-based video recorder).
c) If you can't play those MPG files from your Xbox, convert the MPG files to WMV files