50x: P166 now spooling

Anyone figured out the bug fixes/enhancements with this yet?

I'm still on 165, I hope this release fixes some stabiliy problems in OpenTV and speeds up the OpenTV apps.

Still on 165 here with my 508. How long does it usually take to spool to everyone?

Jeff, seems to me it usually takes 2 to 3 weeks before everyone has the upgrade.

Amen to the OpenTV speedup. I don't understand why they can't just store most of these apps on the harddrive instead of redownloading them everytime

I've just been upgraded. Didn't even have to turn off my reciever this time to be upgraded.

Maybe a bit of a speedup on dish home weather. Weather does a save when you leave now so it remembers my home city. Didn't under 165.

I lost everything recorded on my 501 (including a PPV that I hadn't watched yet) during the upgrade. I called Dish and they said I should have "protected" my recordings. It seems that protecting recordings should be the default. Just my 2 cents.

Protected or not you shouldn't looks programs in an upgrade. Call dish back and give them a health does of whoopass, and send an email to [email protected]

You should at least get credit for your PPV, and an apology.

Originally posted by Nancy Galliano
I lost everything recorded on my 501 (including a PPV that I hadn't watched yet) during the upgrade. I called Dish and they said I should have "protected" my recordings. It seems that protecting recordings should be the default. Just my 2 cents.

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Nancy, you need to get your 501 exchanged. I went through Hell the first 6 months with mine, losing 30+ hours of recordings 4 different times.

You need to call Dish and be firm but polite and demand a new unit. If it is fairly new, refuse to pay shipping on it. They will cry foul but be firm and the fee will be waived.

166 arrived for me early this morning, nothing different noticed here.

I received 166 earlier today. No problems so far.

I have yet to see anything that stands out as "new" in this software release. Probably just a bunch of minor bug fixes as slow motion is still not enabled and Dish Home has all the same active applications on it now that it had previously. I was thinking this upgrade would add a few more applications like zap2it, and news, but it doesn't look to be the case just yet.

I also received it this morning. Seems to me that Dish Home is faster. Also haven't had the reboot problem in my playing with Dish Home and Weather so far. This is GREAT news for me. I hope this upgrade solved that one and I wasn't just lucky this morning.

I just noticed that Dish Home is an option on the menu bar in Weather. Was that always there or is that new? I don't recall having seen it there before, but I could be mistaken.

The upgrade wiped out our recordings. My wife lost a weeks worth of her shows, she is not happy!

If this software upgrade is any indication of the past upgrades, be it known that it is best to do a power button reset after receiving any upgrade from Dish. Past experience has shown that if you don't reset the receiver after receiving an upgrade, all hell can break loose. Better to be on the safe side than play with fire.

Randy_B and everyone else that lost recordings - please call Dish and let the know about this problem, so that at least they'll stop spooling it, fix it, and make it safe for the rest of us

Actually, too late. I've already got it - all recordings are intact.

A few weeks ago I posted that Dish Home crashes for me more often than not. I've only had P166 for a day or so and have only used DH three times, but it hasn't crashed on me yet. This is significant since it would have crashed once or twice by now. This S/W upgrade must be for people like me. I guess if you didn't have these frequent crashes the upgrade wouldn't affect you.

I do notice DH being a little faster, too.