Vivek said something on the show that I thought was mind-bogglingly stupid. Someone asked why Dish doesn't release an API for the Hopper so that other people can write apps for it. Vivek said something about wanting to protect the content stored on the Hopper. Now (ignoring for the moment the fact that 99% of everything gets bootlegged somehow anyway), is this really the level of intellect in Dish's programming team? None of the existing apps access recordings stored on the Hopper! If you don't want access to the recordings, just don't put that in the API! It's not rocket science! They didn't ask for source code to rewrite the OS, they asked for an API for writing apps!
(By the way, I was going to call in to the show and ask about this ridiculous video problem on the Eastern Arc versions of MTV HD, SyFy HD, etc., but I don't like talking on the phone, so when Scott said that people could PM Vivek with any questions after the show, I did it that way. I still haven't received a reply. But there is no way that this isn't a Dish problem, as they're in total control of their system. It isn't coming from the originators that way because nobody has reported it on the Western Arc. It's either the encoders, the receivers, or an incompatibility between the two.)
