joeadt said:
Does anyone NOT have problems. This is bull, The 811 is a piece of crap. You have to know all these "tricks" just to get it to work. If I see "acquiring signal" one more time I am going to trash this thing. If the OTA is working, I don't dare channel surf. If you do one thing wrong, it locks up, looses channels, goes black or a number of other problems. By the time you get it working again you could miss 3 innings of a game! My neighbor had DirectTV HD hooked up and his NEVER when black or had aquiring signal, and we surfed and jumped around all afternoon watching different games. NO PROBLEM. My wife can't even enjoy watching tv with the 811 because she doesn't know all the "tricks" to make it work right.
Sorry for the harshness but I am so tired of this and have only been with Dish for 4 months.
As soon as my cable company gives me 2 way service I am out of hear. If not, I am jumping to DirectTV or Voom.
Can't wait till my year is up. this sucks.
Anyone else this mad??
Actually not. I have seen some interesting things with the 2.80 build in terms of channel mapping. The dark video issue is also fairly new. I personally have seen it twice. I soft boot about once a week at the most. Very infrequent compared to some that seem to have to do it once a day. I don't know what the difference is. My 65 yr old grand mother has no problem using the 811, but I do have a programmable remote.
I have seen the acquiring signal bug single Dish 6000. I guarentee that you will see it again if you are viewing OTA, so based on your post you should save your self some headache and return it. This problem has been around for a while and it is in both the 6000 and the 811.
From my experience, compared to the 6000, I find the 811 more than acceptable. However, like I said above I am not having to reboot it that often. Actually, for me it is very infrequent so I very curious why the wide variation in experiences. There is a informal poll on this issue that shows some interesting result.
One thing I thought would be worth a try (Possible memory leak) would be to install a timer on that would power the unit off each night for about 30 minutes. If there was a memory leak, this would clean things up. Yes I know one should not have to do this, but it might increase the percieved reliability and would be worth a shot. Would be a interesting test for something that is having a reboot the box a lot.
My gut based on what people have posted here that there is a memory leak that is being aggreviated to different degree depending on OTA installations. Just a guess and a wild one at that.
Also, Dish has a record of releasing a box that is buggy and then producing a stable box over time.... On a positive note, in time things will improve. What you want to ultimitely do is your choice.
As to "811 is a piece of Crap", based on your experience it is. Based on other it is not.. There are people that are enjoing the 811 and are actually not having any significant issues with it. In my opinion, I would not classify it has a pile of crap base on my experience. If it was a pile of crap, it would not be in service in my Family room's TV.
With the 811, Your mileage may vary for sure, but for most it will not fall into the pile of Crap rating. Sorry to hear for your case it does, because I have been and it does suck.
Life is funny like that.
