I agree that Dish normally avoids disrupting things like software updates around the holidays, especially an update like this one. It wasn't a rogue employee that sent the email that many got saying Dec 22 though. Multiple people would have checked the details including the date spec'd, etc, etc.Scott said that Dish was going into holiday lockdown. I can't visualize them pushing out any software when they are in holiday lockdown. Companies don't make huge changes that affect their customers when they have limited staff to respond to the resulting issues.