Dish New Features Video automatic download

[mike123abc]

Learn about your receiver's new internet-based video feature and more!

The video shows advantages to hooking up the internet. Shows various ways to hook up the 622. Via homeplug or the RJ45 jack. How to put your ip address in.

refers you to tech.dishnetwork.com and search for home networking.


Looks like they are ready for the bit ethernet push.

 

[dfergie]

I saw this in my schedule tonight... but watching TV off of my 811... which in itself is showing new features... It showed LNB drift... have not seen that before from this receiver...

 

[tigerfan33]

If I were Dish I would not have done this. This feature is nothing to write home about. With Direct adding hd and launching its own VOD, Dish right now looks like a second rate company compared to Direct.

 

[Hall]

If I were Dish I would not have done this. This feature is nothing to write home about.

They think otherwise though....

 

[mike123abc]

One only hopes they are quick to expand DishOnline to something useful. Once the bugs are worked out of the 2-300 movies they have, hopefully they will put some free content and a lot bigger selection. Right now it seems like a Beta release where they simply have a demo of the capabilities worked up.

 

[Ronald_Jeremy]

The video keeps stating that the phone line needs to be hooked up to access the features!

 

[Hall]

The video keeps stating that the phone line needs to be hooked up to access the features!

What new "feature" is this for, DishONLINE ? I haven't seen it yet myself.

 

[Ronald_Jeremy]

What new "feature" is this for, DishONLINE ? I haven't seen it yet myself.

I just watched it again on my slingbox and it says in order to use features like caller id(of course the phone line must be hooked up), video on demand, and all of the Dish Home features, the phone line must be hooked up. She says this almost at the very end.

 

[Hall]

Those features do require the phone line. Anyone who's smart enough to know to connect their receiver to their broadband connection also knows that this replaces the phone line. Why confuse those who don't know this ?

If they said DishONLINE requires the phone connection, that would be really bad.

 

[Ronald_Jeremy]

Perhaps I am confrused. Isn't VOD the same as Dishonline?

 

[Hall]

Heh, take your pick ! Dish has normal PPVs (these show up in the program guide, around channel 500 ??), and they require a phone line because they dial-out to tell Dish what you ordered so that they can bill you for them. There is the "Movies and more" (actually Dish On Demand) option that you see when you hit DVR on your remote. Those are downloaded to your receiver for a short time period. I presume billing for those is also via phone line. Finally, there's DishONLINE, which are streamed to your DVR only when you request them. One has to presume the billing for these is via the same broadband connection that you get them over, but maybe it dials out to bill those two !!

When Dish says VOD, they mean their DVR service (or used to).

 

[Ronald_Jeremy]

You can order PPV over the ethernet connection.

 

[HDNewone]

Something that has been overlooked:

The video is terrible... I mean, are we in a time-warp back to 1995?

 

[Hall]

You can order PPV over the ethernet connection.

See post # 9

 

[toddjb]

I watched the video download and I have to say, I don't get it.

Right now it doesn't seem worth the effort for me to connect via ethernet if the only new feature is DishONLINE. Sharing programming between receivers on the same network would be nice, as would control of my DVR timers from the internet, among other things.

Is there anything else offered with this feature? In the video they keep talking about this great new functionality I'll be getting...but I didn't see it. ?

-todd

 

[Hall]

Being able to program your DVR over the internet.

 

[drdroo]

One of these days they'll let you do customer support stuff over Ethernet. I think it sucks in the meantime that we only get a small subset of features.

 

[Rlanham]

One of these days they'll let you do customer support stuff over Ethernet.

Cust support can't even follow a flow-chart ! I would't want them to have direct control over any piece of my electronic equipment.

 

[drdroo]

No I namely meant that I can't look up billing, etc. without a phone line in. They say you need the phone line in for Chan 100 items still.

 

[toddjb]

Being able to program your DVR over the internet.

are you saying you CAN do this with the feature, or just repeating my wishlist item?


To explain the feature, which probably doesn't need explaining, it should allow you to set or adjust timers you forgot about remotely. You're on vacation, you hear about a new show during the day, times change, etc. etc.