I have an Ethernet “network connection” port on my HD/DVR and my A/V receiver. Is ther any reason I should con

Question

I have an Ethernet “network connection” port on my HD/DVR and my A/V receiver. Is ther any reason I should connect the two? What else besides hooking these up to a computer network are these ports for?

Answer 1

The HD-DVR is so the unit can automatically download firmware updates. If you dont want to do this, you can usually burn the updates into a CD-R disk and use this to update things.

(I just did this with 2 machines this weekend).

I dont know about the receiver. You have to read the manual to see why it has a port.

Note: I usually advise people to plan on putting a telephone jack and Cat5/6 eathernet behind their equipment rack. More and more things want this: PS3/XBox360 for 'Live' and to download HD movies, etc.

So I think it is worth doing.