First Rumor of 2009 - 922 Screenshot?

[eskimo]

I could not disagree with you more. I LOVE the enhanced with video guide. It still lists plenty of channels on the screen and I can still follow what is going on in the picture (especially helpfull when there are lots of ball games on). That "little window" is still pretty darn big on my 60" TV.

I have a 70" sxrd. I know how big the video looks. I choose not to use it.

[memo90061]

I've always wanted this feature in Dish's program guide.... I liked it when DirecTV had it, what, 6-7 years ago ? To be honest, there are many channels that I don't really know their names and the abbreviations used don't help me enough !

Yeah! I love how DirecTV has the logos in their guide and when you change the channels. I used to have DirecTV and now I have Dish.

[J. Allen Head]

I like the dark background colors as well verses the white background - Do you think maybe in this photo that this could just be the standard guide with video and that they might also have the extended guide with video option like the VIP series have in the menus - i loved the dishplayer EPG layout and this one seems to have a similar look

[M Sparks]

I think having video in the guide is wasted screen real estate. If you turn off the pic in guide you get more channels listed. If one relly needs pic with guide hit browse instead. I have 8 irds in the house from dish and bell and non have pic in guide turned on.

Someone call engineering and have them pull the plug on this project. Eskimo has spoken...we've all been doing it wrong.

[Pakbackr]

was about to say, i didnt think les mis would be on ESPN :P

What's the world coming to?

[Hall]

I maybe haven't been with Dish long enough, but do they ever change the look of the EPG for a receiver ? That is, someone with a 322 wakes up in the morning and the EPG looks completely different, not the difference from one receiver to another. I suspect that would cause a lot of support phone calls for the "average" customer.

[DWS44]

I maybe haven't been with Dish long enough, but do they ever change the look of the EPG for a receiver ? That is, someone with a 322 wakes up in the morning and the EPG looks completely different, not the difference from one receiver to another. I suspect that would cause a lot of support phone calls for the "average" customer.

I remember back when I first signed up with Dish, I got the 811 and a 322, and I always wished that they'd update the 811's cruddy DOS-looking plain text interface to match the 322, but obviously that never happened. None of the receivers with that plain cruddy interface were ever updated to the current interface. I'd be surprised if they upgraded the current ViPs to match the new 922 stuff.

[Cyclone]

They have had a few "themes" for the Dish STB receivers that I can recall.

1. The old Light Green/Gray that was used in the Dish 6000 and 2000 receivers.
2. The "Open TV" look in the 4900, 501/510, 811 receivers.
3. The updated OPENTV look that we have in current receivers 522/625/622/722 (and a few others).
4. Special DVR looks for the 721/921 and the old Dishplayer.

I'm sure some aged vets will list a few that I missed out on, and no I wasn't going to try to list all of the known receivers.

But to my Knowlege, dish has not significantly changed the look for their software on a receiver. I do know that did change the look on my 510 a year or two ago, but it was slight and I can't say I would call it out a real change in look.

[Hall]

I understand that the "look" on a 311 may look different than a 722 or a 6000 looks different than a 921. I meant, does Dish ever change the look of the 622's guide with a software update ? I just don't see Dish changing the current ViP receivers to look similar to this 922 receiver or if they did, the current "theme" would remain in place and the user would have to choose the new look.

[Cyclone]

re-read my last paragraph. I haven't seen them change the look of the GUIDE via a software release, with a slight exception of the 510, and even that wasn't anything to write home about.