n0qcu said:
WOW all that functionality and ONLY a year after its been released. GO Dish Software Development team!
Dish 811 - P282 Update
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WOW all that functionality and ONLY a year after its been released. GO Dish Software Development team!
Playing Devil's Advocate...So how long did it take the Redmond Rejects to get Winblows to work nicely? At least E* receivers are backwards compatible...Paradox-SJ said:WOW all that functionality and ONLY a year after its been released. GO Dish Software Development team!
Enough already. Put your pom-poms away and get real. The box has been out for a considerable amount of time. At $399 retail, the damn thing should be able to go from an OTA channel to satellite without bugging out. The damn thing should be able to keep its guide without having to suffer through a 3-5 minute reboot process. The damn thing should friggin work and IT DOESN'T FRIGGIN WORK THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO !!!!!! I shouldn't have to do a power reset on a regular basis. I'm not signed up for pre-release software. Why did 2.81 go out to the masses only to need 2.82 weeks later due to a @%$@#% Guide???nippjas said:Playing Devil's Advocate...So how long did it take the Redmond Rejects to get Winblows to work nicely? At least E* receivers are backwards compatible...
Sorry to burst your bubble but there's P283 scheduled for December and P284 Scheduled for January, so perhaps you should pick up your pom poms and send a lovey cheer to the company you love to hate. BTW Direct is only a phone call away...Adjust your thong and take a gander at how you like their equipment pricing...I don't know a lot of people who paid more than $200 for the 811. And quite frankly the majority of the 811 users are leasing and don't own it....mikew said:Enough already. Put your pom-poms away and get real. The box has been out for a considerable amount of time. At $399 retail, the damn thing should be able to go from an OTA channel to satellite without bugging out. The damn thing should be able to keep its guide without having to suffer through a 3-5 minute reboot process. The damn thing should friggin work and IT DOESN'T FRIGGIN WORK THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO !!!!!! I shouldn't have to do a power reset on a regular basis. I'm not signed up for pre-release software. Why did 2.81 go out to the masses only to need 2.82 weeks later due to a @%$@#% Guide???
mikew said:Enough already. Put your pom-poms away and get real. The box has been out for a considerable amount of time. At $399 retail, the damn thing should be able to go from an OTA channel to satellite without bugging out. The damn thing should be able to keep its guide without having to suffer through a 3-5 minute reboot process. The damn thing should friggin work and IT DOESN'T FRIGGIN WORK THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO !!!!!! I shouldn't have to do a power reset on a regular basis. I'm not signed up for pre-release software. Why did 2.81 go out to the masses only to need 2.82 weeks later due to a @%$@#% Guide???
You definitely need to chill out. It's just a machine. If you don't like it, then unplug it, cut your losses and go with D*.
For the majority of users, the 811 is an "acceptable" machine, that delivers most of what we could expect. Nobody is forcing you to keep yours. If you're so displeased with it, get rid of it. I happen to be very pleased with mine. Is it perfect?. No. Is it worth putting up with? It is in my, and many others opinions. I wouldn't trade it for anything else out there.
Just my take on the situation.
Tom in TX
I only paid $100.00 for my 811 and it handily outperforms the last OTA receiver I owned(Samsung)mikew said:Enough already. Put your pom-poms away and get real. The box has been out for a considerable amount of time. At $399 retail, the damn thing should be able to go from an OTA channel to satellite without bugging out. The damn thing should be able to keep its guide without having to suffer through a 3-5 minute reboot process. The damn thing should friggin work and IT DOESN'T FRIGGIN WORK THE WAY IT IS SUPPOSED TO !!!!!! I shouldn't have to do a power reset on a regular basis. I'm not signed up for pre-release software. Why did 2.81 go out to the masses only to need 2.82 weeks later due to a @%$@#% Guide???
Is this patch supposed to fix the re-introduced problem with guide info only going out 2 hours or so? I'm getting a little annoyed at having to reset my 811 almost daily to pick up the guide info. Of course, my 811 was free (own it), so for the money I'm very happy with it.
This takes us back to gpflepson's comments earlier.redline65 said:
Supposedly, if the guide was interrupted while refreshing...i.e. you change the channel while it is refreshing, it would either 1.) corrupt the guide info displayed, or 2.) not download all of the available data...hence I was told is the reason they locked out the ability to change channels during the guide data refresh....The release notes have EPG listed several times with various patches....will it be fixed...that yet remains to be seen...I haven't had a problem yet....but anybody that has P282 at this point hasn't had it long enough to explore it fully yet....Let's revisit this issue in a couple days....I'm sure users would get a good feeling for this one by then.
Jason
My 811 took the P282 download today and the BSOD problem that I frequently had prior to P282 appears to be gone. I would usually get it when I aggressively channel surfed especially between OTA HD and satellite SD/HD. I have been aggressively channel surfing this evening with no BSOD. In addition, I now get about 40 hours worth of OTA HD channel guide data. I am very encouraged so far.
I got a word from outside - spooling of the P2.82 going at very low speed ( around 50 kbps , 4 times slow then usual ) ; size is the same; serial numbers range: 58100000...60265000 for today.
- spooling of the P2.82 going at very low speed ( around 50 kbps , 4 times slow then usual ) ; size is the same; serial numbers range: 58100000...60265000 for today.The last 2 revs some users, including myself, had issues getting the download to take....as a result I believe it was slowed....We were talking about this earlier....seems to be consensus.Smith said:I got a word from outside
I got some more tidbits. Is someone seen this ?
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* Hi. The fact that you are seeing this means that the *
* system has booted and all the tasks have started. Now, *
* that doesn't mean that the box isn't frozen or otherwise *
* broken right now, it just means that execution has gotten *
* to the end of the main task and it is now sleeping. *
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* *Are you using a BlackBird? Is this a displayed message from the 811, from the 811 in debug mode, or are you reading the stream with Blackbird or similar cypher? I think your posting something 98% of users don't even knows exists.Smith said:
No, just reading other forums; seems to me that ppl using just DVB-S cards and PC. At least I see they are using TSReader as an engine for obtain the info.
I will not take it as my knowledge; do you know how to debug the receiver ? Would it help owners to provide some usefull data from debug screen(s) for Dish ?
Well, perhaps someday Dish coders will make same trick as for PVR522 and will download all debugging data by phone. Hope it will speedup bug's squashing process.
