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jamieT
11-17-02, 10:57 PM
A mini-survey, please, on Dish 301 receivers:

If you're looking through the full-screen program guide, and you hit the "INFO" button to get a detailed description of a movie that will be starting in, say, 5 minutes, how long, on average, does it take for that description to appear?

 

zztzed
11-18-02, 02:57 AM
My family has two 301s; one in the den and one in my room. The one in the den has the P180 firmware; the one in my room is still on P157. The one in the den feels a lot slower for some things; it takes around a second to respond when you hit the Guide button, but the Info display appears basically instantly, with a very slight delay to actually draw the box. The 301 in my room feels a lot faster.

Although they're both orders of magnitude faster than the Motorola boxes that digital cable in my town uses. :D