I love my Hoppers, but TWO things I miss about my old cable TV DVRs relate to my Type A method of watching sporting events.
(1) I know there's a button to fast forward 30 seconds, and I can hit that several times to move ahead several minutes. But, I miss/want the ability to jump ahead 10 or 15 minutes in one press. That's great for (a) skipping past a hockey period intermission, a football halftime, to get past the pre-game show, or if you want to get right to the 3 hour point (for instance) in a 4 hour recording. DISH, please program the little black pageup and pagedown buttons to be +/- 15 minutes when pushed during playback. Or make the skip forward duration option be a custom choice like my old Cable TV provider offered.
(2) DISH Fast Forward is too fast. I like the multiple speed fast forward options ... x4, x15, x60, x300. Great. BUT, the FF speed is not as shown. For example, if I hit x4 and let it go for 10 seconds, that doesn't take me to 40 seconds later, but more like 150 seconds later, or 15x FF. I really want to be able to watch a baseball or hockey game using the x4 (as I did in old cable TV days), since then I can watch for when certain action is happening, back up 10 seconds, and voila. For instance, I can watch every pitch of a baseball game, and just slow it down when I see the ball put into play. But, when the slowest FF speed is really x15, it's too fast to be able to watch and process what's going on. DISH, please establish the x4 FF speed to be x4.
(1) I know there's a button to fast forward 30 seconds, and I can hit that several times to move ahead several minutes. But, I miss/want the ability to jump ahead 10 or 15 minutes in one press. That's great for (a) skipping past a hockey period intermission, a football halftime, to get past the pre-game show, or if you want to get right to the 3 hour point (for instance) in a 4 hour recording. DISH, please program the little black pageup and pagedown buttons to be +/- 15 minutes when pushed during playback. Or make the skip forward duration option be a custom choice like my old Cable TV provider offered.
(2) DISH Fast Forward is too fast. I like the multiple speed fast forward options ... x4, x15, x60, x300. Great. BUT, the FF speed is not as shown. For example, if I hit x4 and let it go for 10 seconds, that doesn't take me to 40 seconds later, but more like 150 seconds later, or 15x FF. I really want to be able to watch a baseball or hockey game using the x4 (as I did in old cable TV days), since then I can watch for when certain action is happening, back up 10 seconds, and voila. For instance, I can watch every pitch of a baseball game, and just slow it down when I see the ball put into play. But, when the slowest FF speed is really x15, it's too fast to be able to watch and process what's going on. DISH, please establish the x4 FF speed to be x4.
