Merry Christmas From Dish Network

[Brandie]

I have a major issue with this commercial!!

Its just a Christmas ad that is actually a Christmas ad vs a holiday (add nausium) ad.

Its not a review by OSHA critiquing what is wrong with this picture, etc...

Such is life ---

Ever notice how everything in life is repetitive? Like, every year at this time we hear Christmas carols!!!

 

[sA :: Shaggy]

it was a joke. every tech in our office is having fun with this commercial.

just felt like pointing out the obvious. it gets worse in the 14th million cust video.

 

[Sileny Jizda]

Charlie and Jim looked like someone was holding a gun to their head. It almost looked borderline painful for Charlie. I still don't get the free advertising bit. In the realm of corny commercials they went to a corn bake the night before they shot this one.

 

[TNGTony]

Well, this little diddy just showed up on my DVR as a separate 1 minute program.

I don't care how good or bad the commercial is (I personally thought it was well done both on a technical and conceptual level and I thought both Charlie and Jim enjoyed their roll when I saw it as an ad insert on a program I recorded.) . I don't care how short the videos are. I don't care how little space it takes.

KEEP CRAP OFF MY DVR UNLESS I INITIATED THE RECORDING!

Unless it's a video telling me how I won a free lifetime subscription to every channel Dish offeres or something of higher value, KEEP IT OFF MY HARD DRIVE!

 

[Slamminc11]

oh geez, here we go...

It was a minute long, and it takes less than two seconds to delete it.

 

[maximum]

TNGTony
I like your signature. I can't believe how many people interchange "then" and "than".

I also liked the DISH greeting. Didn't even think about the PC aspect until I read this thread.

 

[SKrueger]

Maybe putting it on the DVR means we'll get a Christmas present with today's uplink.

Altho' I'm certainly not holding my breath.

 

[TNGTony]

oh geez, here we go...

It was a minute long, and it takes less than two seconds to delete it.

It's all well and good except when it knocks something off your drive which it did!

I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it! Keep crap off my crap unless I ask for your crap!

 

[dennispap]

Maybe putting it on the DVR means we'll get a Christmas present with today's uplink.

Altho' I'm certainly not holding my breath.

Nope uplink is up
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-ne...k-activity-report-81-changes.html#post2047175

 

[mpeltz]

Unless it's a video telling me how I won a free lifetime subscription to every channel Dish offeres or something of higher value, KEEP IT OFF MY HARD DRIVE!

1++ Agreed. I don't care about xmas commercials, but they don't need to shove it in my face by automatically downloading this to my DVR. If Dish really wants to get in the xmas spirit, how about a free month of service. At least provide an option in preferences to disable worthless downloads.

 

[Awohar]

It's all well and good except when it knocks something off your drive which it did!

I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it! Keep crap off my crap unless I ask for your crap!

I think you're being a little harsh. I wouldn't consider this an ad with regard to the attempts to send this to their current customer base. Instead, it would seem more to me that this is almost like a Christmas card being sent out to customers. Now, seeing on regular tv would be more ad-like.

 

[sam_gordon]

It's all well and good except when it knocks something off your drive which it did!

I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it! Keep crap off my crap unless I ask for your crap!

While I agree they shouldn't force feed recordings, I want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly... A one minute recording forced a deletion of another program? Are you really running your DVR that full?

 

[LER]

yes. Some of us keep the drive full.