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    How To Force Program Guide download

    I've had that "check switch" cycle work before on my 508. But today it's failed even after a number of runs through. Running to the end of the dates doesn't work either. (And it would be so simple for Dish to add a menu choice that simply forced a re-import of the program guide!) Now I've...
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    508 DoDemand - dangerous?

    If the partitions have had that scheme since the beginning, you're right. I was being cautious about the downloads primarily because there were several reports of lost files on alt.dbs.echostar, specifically on 508s right after the software update. But I guess then that's the...
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    508 DoDemand - dangerous?

    Van, Nice snarky reply. Unlike Dick Cheney (a distant relative of mine) I'm not so concerned with what individuals do, but with what larger groups of people do. An individual's consumption doesn't cause climate change or raise the price of energy; but patterns over a society do. That said...
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    508 DoDemand - dangerous?

    Well, the VoD movies download when the unit's "off" - which means that at minimum there's higher power drain to prepare a feature I'm never going to use. It ought to be a user option, IMHO, whether to even have this happen. Nationwide, the electricity being burned for VoD that won't ever be...
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    508 DoDemand - dangerous?

    Thanks! Was that report from before or after the VoD software update? That is, was partition 4 there from the factory, as spare space unavailable anyhow, or does the VoD upgrade repartition? Elsewhere someone's commented that software upgrades often just result in lost data anyway - but...
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    508 DoDemand - dangerous?

    Does someone know how the 508 is handling the Movies-on-Demand thing in terms of storage? I've seen several reports on Usenet of 508 users finding hours (or in one case all) of their own recordings deleted after the update. In my case that hasn't happened yet - but I also happened to leave the...
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