Dish 625 Shutoff from inactivity warning box: Poor design decision?

[OoTLink]

I've noticed that if I leave my Dish 625 on the same channel for an extended period of time, a dialog box comes up informing me that the receiver will automatically shut off (well, sleep) if I don't press the cancel or no buttons. However, "Yes" is the default option...

I'm not here to troll or flame, but I find that a really poor choice - only 1 option was needed - "Cancel" or "Don't turn off". If the user really agreed they could just let the receiver turn itself off, or... they could hit the power button!

Seriously though, I wonder what the UI designer was thinking lol. Anyone else got a strange one?

 

[Darrell S]

Why don't you turn off that feature and you won't have to deal with it? It's useless as far as I'm concerned. The important setting is the one where you tell it what time to shut down for guide and software updates.

 

[harshness]

Why don't you turn off that feature and you won't have to deal with it?

The "feature" cannot be disabled. I get hit by this at least once a month when watching movies or sports.

 

[Tampa8]

Yes, you can control it. It's a menu feature. From memory it's menu8-8.

 

[harshness]

Yes, you can control it. It's a menu feature. From memory it's menu8-8.

That's where it is on the ViP series, but I don't recall that the option is available on the 525/625.

 

[Darrell S]

That's where it is on the ViP series, but I don't recall that the option is available on the 525/625.

just checked on my old 625. 8-7 set inactivity to Disable. It has software ver 582.

 

[Tampa8]

That's where it is on the ViP series, but I don't recall that the option is available on the 525/625.

It's not at menu 8-8 on my VIP, It's at menu 8-4. but it was at 8-8 on 625. Apparently now at 8-7. Wherever point is you can control it.