This of the first of two threads about the crashes my hopper3 gets involving using side-by-side and multiview.
I pretty much gave up reporting any problems with my hopper3 crashing via the chat or by phone calls to DISH tech support. It's just that the only problem I reported that ever was fixed was our MeTV channel was on the wrong timezone after DST ended for the rest of the country (no DST in Arizona except in the Navajo reservation), and that got fixed during the chat. Multiple reports I made about crashes involving use of PIP not only seemed to have been ignored, but reporting the same problem the second or third time is met with a response that DISH tech support has never had such a problem reported before.
So I'm wondering whether DISH tech support has a problem report tracker system at all. Maybe they do, but don't give their customer service representatives access to it that the CSRs can actually use successfully.
I suppose DISH considers its bug list (problem report tracker issues list) to be proprietary, and feel they need to keep it "close to the vest". But despite many fine features of the hopper3, losing about 7 minutes of a recording because the receiver rebooted due to a bug is very frustrating, not to mention losing the ability to skip backwards on the live show.
The downward spiral of cable and satellite TV, as cable-cutters move to internet streaming, probably is going to doom any budget for fixing these bugs. Too bad it didn't happen years ago when I first reported them. So I suppose I'm just shouting my disappointment into the void, but here it is, for what it's worth.
I pretty much gave up reporting any problems with my hopper3 crashing via the chat or by phone calls to DISH tech support. It's just that the only problem I reported that ever was fixed was our MeTV channel was on the wrong timezone after DST ended for the rest of the country (no DST in Arizona except in the Navajo reservation), and that got fixed during the chat. Multiple reports I made about crashes involving use of PIP not only seemed to have been ignored, but reporting the same problem the second or third time is met with a response that DISH tech support has never had such a problem reported before.
So I'm wondering whether DISH tech support has a problem report tracker system at all. Maybe they do, but don't give their customer service representatives access to it that the CSRs can actually use successfully.
I suppose DISH considers its bug list (problem report tracker issues list) to be proprietary, and feel they need to keep it "close to the vest". But despite many fine features of the hopper3, losing about 7 minutes of a recording because the receiver rebooted due to a bug is very frustrating, not to mention losing the ability to skip backwards on the live show.
The downward spiral of cable and satellite TV, as cable-cutters move to internet streaming, probably is going to doom any budget for fixing these bugs. Too bad it didn't happen years ago when I first reported them. So I suppose I'm just shouting my disappointment into the void, but here it is, for what it's worth.