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Last night my son came in and told me his satellite receiver in his bedroom was not working, I went in and checked it out and the power was off on his 3900.
After powering it up for him it came on. I had an idea to check if he got Channel 100 and up popped a screen telling me my receiver was downloading the Dish Home Application.
In just a few seconds I was at the Dish Home main screen, nice design but empty, some of the functions (such as support) say Coming Soon if you try clicking on them. It felt like a ghost town instead of a cool new feature.
The first thing I checked out was the games, I was mildly suprised to find that the games had sound! The demos I tried before there was no sound. The sound added a much needed boost to the games. My son enjoyed playing Carrot Mania. Dish is charging $5 a month for access to all the games, while the games are cute they will not be getting $5 a month from me, however if they priced it $1.99 I might pick up the games for him.
Zap2it TV was another choice for me, but its another feature I wont use. I went to check the movie listings and they had NO LISTINGS for ANY movie theater in CONNECTICUT!
I then checked my Horoscope, nothing big there.
The games ARE cute, but not worth $5 the rest of the apps are just filler. I don't think the Dish Home feature is anything special.
After powering it up for him it came on. I had an idea to check if he got Channel 100 and up popped a screen telling me my receiver was downloading the Dish Home Application.
In just a few seconds I was at the Dish Home main screen, nice design but empty, some of the functions (such as support) say Coming Soon if you try clicking on them. It felt like a ghost town instead of a cool new feature.
The first thing I checked out was the games, I was mildly suprised to find that the games had sound! The demos I tried before there was no sound. The sound added a much needed boost to the games. My son enjoyed playing Carrot Mania. Dish is charging $5 a month for access to all the games, while the games are cute they will not be getting $5 a month from me, however if they priced it $1.99 I might pick up the games for him.
Zap2it TV was another choice for me, but its another feature I wont use. I went to check the movie listings and they had NO LISTINGS for ANY movie theater in CONNECTICUT!
I then checked my Horoscope, nothing big there.
The games ARE cute, but not worth $5 the rest of the apps are just filler. I don't think the Dish Home feature is anything special.