New Dishplayer Oddity?

[StevenZ]

Another day, another bug...

I recorded a 2-hour movie. It shows up as a 2-hour movie in the PTV list of recordings. But when I play it, it "ends" about half way through. When I FF through it, the 'thermometer' progresses to about half way, and then BAM! I'm at the "end" of the show.

3 years into my love/hate relationship with this box, I've never seen anything like this particular behavior.

Anyone else see this? Any idea what I can do to watch the rest of the movie that seems to be parked there (besides Blockbuster/Netflix/etc.)?

[Kerry High]

That sounds like what happens if you are recording, and there is rain fade for the rest of the program.

[TNGTony]

Did you happen to have a "rain fade" event during the recording? This could be the cause. This summer I've had as many rain fade events as I've had the entire 5 previous years I've ownd the dish (because it's been a wet, cold summer with lots of isolated T-showers--global warming you know). When I'm recording something during one of these events, the Dishplayer will "skip" from the beginning of the fade event to the end. If you happened to have a REALLY bad fade event or your connectors just got soaked, that may explain it. It's not a bug. It just never received the signal to record it.

See ya
Tony

[Bill R]

I live in the same area as Tony and I have NEVER seen as many rain fades as we have had this spring and summer.

And because of a STUPID decision they made at Echostar and MSN (removing the ability to get the 44 hour EPG on the DishPlayer) I have seen many days without ANY guide information (because the DishPlayer missed the EEPG download during the overnight period).

[Kerry High]

I live in the same area as Tony and I have NEVER seen as many rain fades as we have had this spring and summer.

And because of a STUPID decision they made at Echostar and MSN (removing the ability to get the 44 hour EPG on the DishPlayer) I have seen many days without ANY guide information (because the DishPlayer missed the EEPG download during the overnight period).

Can't you use 7225000 to download a new 9-day guide?

[TNGTony]

I haven't tried that yet. I'll let you know. I'll do this tonight.

See ya
Tony

[Bill R]

Can't you use 7225000 to download a new 9-day guide?
No, 7225000 was used to get the 44 hour EPG. If you use the code now, it erases the current guide, then "goes through the motions", but does NOT retrieve ANY guide.

No one at DISH has been able to explain to me why MSN did not design an "on demand" EEPG retrieval code into the latest CLIENT software or if they plan on fixing the "oversight" in a future software release.

[Kerry High]

No, 7225000 was used to get the 44 hour EPG. If you use the code now, it erases the current guide, then "goes through the motions", but does NOT retrieve ANY guide.

No one at DISH has been able to explain to me why MSN did not design an "on demand" EEPG retrieval code into the latest CLIENT software or if they plan on fixing the "oversight" in a future software release.


That's odd, 7225000 works just fine on my reciever. I usually get 8 days at 3:00 download, but if I use 7225000 during the day, I get the 9th day. Perhaps something's wrong with the software on your Dishplayer.

[chessmaster1010]

Kerry, that's exactly how my DP behaves with 7225000. I hope they don't disable this code in the next client release, because it works faster than a switch check. I use it when I need to see the ninth day out, or when the nightly download had problems. Usually once a week some of the channels show up with no guide info and/or no channel name.

Note that during the 7225000 download the progress bar usually sticks at some point for five minutes or so, but leave it alone and it will complete (usually - I think 1 of the ~10 times I did this it never did).

[StevenZ]

Did you happen to have a "rain fade" event during the recording?
Tony

Nope. I used to have occasional rain fade, but since I moved, it's *never* happened, even in some nasty downpours. When it used to happen, I'd lose seconds or minutes of the recording, not a whole hour. And I'd be able to FF through the recording, but with blacked-out sections.

This bug is a solid wall at 60 minutes into the 120 minute event that I can't break through. Worse, "Strangers on a Train" (uncut, off TCM, with commentary from Sidney Pollack) doesn't come around very often.

I haven't erased it, hoping for a magic workaround. OTOH, it's a Dishplayer -- who am I kidding?

[alv]

Doesn't a switch test result in a guide retrieval?

[toad57]

Doesn't a switch test result in a guide retrieval?

Yes.