I am aware that nothing lasts forever, ever changing consumer and market forces account for many changes, others may be security or technology driven. Regardless of what the underlying reasons may be, it seems that Dish continues to hammer additional postmortem nails into the coffin of the brand once known as Blockbuster.
As a long time Dish subscriber I took advantage of the 'Blockbuster at Home' offering a few years back when they had expanded their service to include DVD and BluRay disks. Of course disks were discontinued and the service reverted to what it had been before I joined. Though I didn't like it, I understood what was happening and decided to stick with it.
Maybe I am one of the very few who use the "Dish on Demand" menus (the ones accessed via the DVR button on the satellite remote) in conjunction with BB at home but in recent days things have changed for the worse. Dish has eliminated or crippled two of the most useful features within those menus. I don't mind sifting through the BB at home titles on a computer, but I definitely prefer to stream movies through my Dish receiver rather than on/through a computer, which means at some point I have to find the title on the satellite via the remote.
I use a 722 receiver, but I don't believe these to be issues specific to that and I've listed the receiver in case the menu context differs on other receivers. Only a few weeks ago it was possible to browse titles that were grouped by the network ( ie, Epix, Sony or, MGM )which provides it. That capability has now been removed. To make matters worse, Dish has ruined the 'All Movies' (Option 2) 'Search Movies' (Option 2, sub option 4). This search requires using an onscreen keyboard to input my search criteria, usually the movie title. Not ideal, but it beats paging through thousands of titles I'm not interested in, to find just one using the remote. This was my preferred on screen method. The functionality has not changed, but library of titles which that feature can search upon has been changed from thousands - presumably all- to only about eighty, by now limiting searching to only "New Releases." Meanwhile I have no choice but to page through thousands of titles, if I am to use my remote.
If Dish wishes to offer a streaming service and has a receiver capable of delivering that service, then it seems to me that Dish should do all it can to encourage the use of their hardware, but that is certainly not the case. Other tedious, time consuming and very aggravating ways to find and select a desired title are still available via the Dish remote, but why cripple rather than enhance that interface so as to make it more difficult to find my desired titles? Even the ability to queue movies in 'My rentals' from selections made via computer would be a nice improvement to the service.
I'm wondering whether anyone else has noticed or used those functions and the recent changes?
Of course the easiest thing for me is to simply scrap BB at home. This isn't the sort of thing for me to dump Dish over altogether, but it's one more among various changes they have made in recent months that have me considering that more and more. The capability was there only days ago, if Dish's best solution is a fee upgrade - otherwise known as an equipment upgrade, I would prefer to drop Dish entirely.
As a long time Dish subscriber I took advantage of the 'Blockbuster at Home' offering a few years back when they had expanded their service to include DVD and BluRay disks. Of course disks were discontinued and the service reverted to what it had been before I joined. Though I didn't like it, I understood what was happening and decided to stick with it.
Maybe I am one of the very few who use the "Dish on Demand" menus (the ones accessed via the DVR button on the satellite remote) in conjunction with BB at home but in recent days things have changed for the worse. Dish has eliminated or crippled two of the most useful features within those menus. I don't mind sifting through the BB at home titles on a computer, but I definitely prefer to stream movies through my Dish receiver rather than on/through a computer, which means at some point I have to find the title on the satellite via the remote.
I use a 722 receiver, but I don't believe these to be issues specific to that and I've listed the receiver in case the menu context differs on other receivers. Only a few weeks ago it was possible to browse titles that were grouped by the network ( ie, Epix, Sony or, MGM )which provides it. That capability has now been removed. To make matters worse, Dish has ruined the 'All Movies' (Option 2) 'Search Movies' (Option 2, sub option 4). This search requires using an onscreen keyboard to input my search criteria, usually the movie title. Not ideal, but it beats paging through thousands of titles I'm not interested in, to find just one using the remote. This was my preferred on screen method. The functionality has not changed, but library of titles which that feature can search upon has been changed from thousands - presumably all- to only about eighty, by now limiting searching to only "New Releases." Meanwhile I have no choice but to page through thousands of titles, if I am to use my remote.
If Dish wishes to offer a streaming service and has a receiver capable of delivering that service, then it seems to me that Dish should do all it can to encourage the use of their hardware, but that is certainly not the case. Other tedious, time consuming and very aggravating ways to find and select a desired title are still available via the Dish remote, but why cripple rather than enhance that interface so as to make it more difficult to find my desired titles? Even the ability to queue movies in 'My rentals' from selections made via computer would be a nice improvement to the service.
I'm wondering whether anyone else has noticed or used those functions and the recent changes?
Of course the easiest thing for me is to simply scrap BB at home. This isn't the sort of thing for me to dump Dish over altogether, but it's one more among various changes they have made in recent months that have me considering that more and more. The capability was there only days ago, if Dish's best solution is a fee upgrade - otherwise known as an equipment upgrade, I would prefer to drop Dish entirely.
