Good idea. I would get one and plug it in that ugly looking USB port on the H3 front.Maybe someone can design a usb red LED plug-in just for you.
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I'm sure you can find one online, as long as you don't want it tied to whether it's recording or not. 
(With 16 tuners, you can probably assume at least one tuner is recording all the time anyways. Hehe)
(With 16 tuners, you can probably assume at least one tuner is recording all the time anyways. Hehe)
Not even close as 99.999% of my recordings are made during primetime hours and the most tuner used at a once is usually 3 or less.
But seriously... If you really feel that you need LEDs to prevent interrupting a recording, don't you also need one to indicate that someone in another room is watching live on a Joey? Wouldn't it be just as bad to interrupt that? What about one to warn that a recording is going to start in a few minutes so that you don't mess up that either?
Of course you do. You need lights that correspond with ALL the functions, tuners, and outlets.
Dish has taken this into consideration and is working hard to rectify this egregious oversight with the Hopper 4. Here's a spy shot of the H4 in the Dish testing labs:
This is why I still like the ViP722k. It has a blue LED to indicate that TV2 is in use.
That would be the Orange light indicating a Joey in use on the H4.
They might just as well add the LED clock/channel number also. Blue would be a good choice.
Knowing their programmers, they'd add it, but not think to tie it to the internal clock, and therefore make you set it manually or have it blinking 12:00 all the time.
I think the H2 (aka hws) runs ok with the carbon ui. It could be faster but it is usable. It’s at least as fast as my Dish 4000 receiver!
HWS speed under the CGUI is tolerable. No better.
Lost functionality, and errors make it quite poor. I saw an icon for "Bong Appetit"
After a WTF, I opened it on the TV. It was an entirely different show. But on DA, it shows hemp enfused Texas BBQ as the show. Trying to play it via DA gets a black screen. This is not unique. I have several incorrect icons, sometimes a dozen or so instances of the same icon, with different programs listed under them.
Lost functionality, and errors make it quite poor. I saw an icon for "Bong Appetit"
After a WTF, I opened it on the TV. It was an entirely different show. But on DA, it shows hemp enfused Texas BBQ as the show. Trying to play it via DA gets a black screen. This is not unique. I have several incorrect icons, sometimes a dozen or so instances of the same icon, with different programs listed under them.
Even that would be a good feature. Some people like to set their clocks five minutes fast (for example) to make sure they always leave early so they are not running late.Knowing their programmers, they'd add it, but not think to tie it to the internal clock, and therefore make you set it manually or have it blinking 12:00 all the time.
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