L4.41 Software

Perspective check:

The people who come HERE to SatelliteGuys are VERY interested in new features. What percentage of Dish subscribers do you think we, as a group, actually represent?

Relax. Have your choice of beverage. It'll happen when it happens. Go play with your kids. Or your dog. Kiss your wife. DO something, but .... well I guess I find it a bit un-nerving to see how upset some folks are getting over not having this software upgrade IMMEDIATELY.


Sheeesh......

maybe I'm biased 'cause I teach meditation or something....
 
I guess they assume that not everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats wating to fork out 40 bucks for this...and, they are correct in assuming that..

While many here are narrowly focused on the money aspect of this new feature, I seriously doubt that the money has anything to do with any decisions made on rolling this software out to all the 622's. There is no telling what seemingly boneheaded decision caused them to roll 280 dvrs and then hammer the rest of us the day they were supposed to already have the update.

I do not think we will see it rolled out completely tonite but rather someone will discover that some form or batch process or some other simple thing was overlooked in getting this phased out to us in a timely fashion. It's big to us, it's business as usual to the people who are constantly programming, batching, and rolling out software to ALL the DiSH receivers.
 
Perspective check:

The people who come HERE to SatelliteGuys are VERY interested in new features. What percentage of Dish subscribers do you think we, as a group, actually represent?

Relax. Have your choice of beverage. It'll happen when it happens. Go play with your kids. Or your dog. Kiss your wife. DO something, but .... well I guess I find it a bit un-nerving to see how upset some folks are getting over not having this software upgrade IMMEDIATELY.


Sheeesh......

maybe I'm biased 'cause I teach meditation or something....
Your signature says it's only TV- that's like homer simpson saying it's only a donut. DOH! I have a life and it's called TV. Apologies to my wife and family but I want my L441, damn I gotta go F'n customers
 
I bet they roll out to people in the big cities first, then small cities, then towns and finally to the country folk. I don't know this for sure but that may be what happens. Does anyone living in the sticks have L4.41?

I seriously doubt they have any database that detailed. From the data P.Smith has posted, it's a simple roll by receiver ID number batch process. they just rolled 280 receivers and then went on to other work orders.
 
well I guess I find it a bit un-nerving to see how upset some folks are getting over not having this software upgrade IMMEDIATELY.

It's not that bad! It's just chatter whilst waiting...

In the Navy we always used to say, "A bitching sailor is a happy sailor!"
 
I mean does it REALLY matter if you get it on the 14th, 15th, or 16th?

I'm down to 8GB of space for HD and my family doesn't come back from vacation until Thursday! They will have my head if I don't have their favorite shows waiting for them. I'm using my PocketDish as it is to move all SD shows off to give a little more room for the HD stuff. The Company is sucking up space quick!

If this update doesn't hurry up, I might have to, gulp, delete some of my wife's shows! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

:D

It's not that bad but cparker is choking on the tension so I thought I would pile on!

:D:D
 
AHAHahahahha.... thanks. I needed the comic relief. :)

C'mon... "If I don't get it tonight I'm going to switch to D*!!! --whine-----sob----"

"Are you freakin' SERIOUS, dude? *! SLAP!* Better now?"

"*sniff* yeah... thanks...."

:)
 
If this update doesn't hurry up, I might have to, gulp, delete some of my wife's shows! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

:D

It's not that bad but cparker is choking on the tension so I thought I would pile on!

:D:D

Well, at least you know who the boss in the family really is...a missing Oprah episode will get you another 2 weeks on the couch...:p
 
Perspective check:

The people who come HERE to SatelliteGuys are VERY interested in new features. What percentage of Dish subscribers do you think we, as a group, actually represent?
Further perspective check:

Dish has 12,000,000+ customers, i.e. households. This website has 80,000 registered members (how many are still active ? not all are Dish customers.) Even using all 80k, that represents .06% of Dish's subscriber base. Worse, that 12m number is more likely to be upwards of 30,000,000 people, given that the average household has ~2.5 people in it.

Of course, if you have a 622, you also have an HDTV and more importantly, are smart enough to know you need HD service to go with your HDTV ! That might put the typical 622 owner in a higher technical level and therefore more interested in s/w updates, added features like IP Connect and external drives. I mean, face it, Dish isn't adding external storage to make $$$. The # of customers who will use/enable it is going to be very, very small.
 
Oh no I agree with him completely.

If da momma ain't happy.... ain't NOBODY happy.

Say what you will but it's true. :) I will never mock ANYONE for trying to keep da momma happy. Ok well sometimes I will.... but usually in jest. 'Cause I know the truth.

:D
 
...a missing Oprah episode will get you another 2 weeks on the couch...
Heh, what I do is if the info for Oprah is the generic "Oprah discusses topics with her studio audience", I delete it. My wife records them but doesn't watch them normally unless the info is something that interests her.
 
right, but if you forget or delete a single episode, and that happens to be one she wants to take a look at, and its not there, then you know what THAT means..:yikes
BTW Hall, i was tempted to do the math, re: what % of Dish customers actually care about this firmware update, so I am glad you did it for all of us!
Kinda puts it all in PERSPECTIVE, doesnt it?
 
It is to my benefit to make sure she's happy. Each new item must demonstrate that it will benefit her and then I don't have any problem buying the next item. I bought a home theater projector and screen and then showed her favorite movie on it first. Excellent purchase, honey!

This principle works in my favor also. She wants crown molding? No problem, I need a dual compound power miter saw to do it. Done deal!

Her show currently is Flip That House. After they pile up, i can get away with deleting the oldest eps but if she sees that GROUP BY TITLE function and how it TELLS you how many eps are in the folder, I won't be able to delete those anymore.
 
Heh, what I do is if the info for Oprah is the generic "Oprah discusses topics with her studio audience", I delete it. My wife records them but doesn't watch them normally unless the info is something that interests her.

LOL! My wife started deleting those very same generic info Oprah's last night. There must have been 20 episodes. Maybe I can start deleting them for her too!
 
It should be now spooling to some 622 receivers:

Tue Aug 14 09:15:48 2007
PID: 08B4h, ID: 1YKC, FW: L441, Model: ViP622/ViP722

New FW:'L441'
List of BootStraps and BuildConfigs:
'1[3-8]1[AB0-6]' 'RB[BDEGHKL][A-DJ]'
IRD Model: ViP622
List of Serial Numbers:
[2] 73174765-78566181
'1[3-8]1[AB0-6]' 'RJ[KLNP][A-DJ]'
IRD Model: ViP722
List of Serial Numbers:
[2] 1-4000000000

Edit: Added "to some 622 receivers"
Thanks, Smith.
 
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