The BD specs pretty much allow it to do everything short of self destruct and I wouldn't be surprised if there is a back door activation for that somewhere.

That being said, the only media I generally download is a missed episode of a TV series. This last season of "24", we had a storm and the dish crapped out for an episode and my wife turned into Jack Bauer in interrogation mode until I successfully downloaded her the missed episode.

With great power comes Awesome irresponsibility.