VIP Receiver Retirement
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Definitely. They are not even in production. Whats left are refurbs. Rumor has they will be coming out with 2 tuner Hoppers which would be the final blow. When they "officially" retire (not activated) is anybody's guess.
The whole company is going to kangaroo sh*t lately
New activations were to stop on 10/1/17, but that has been delayed indefinitely. Maybe so they can fix a few more s/w bugs. Err- "features."
I expect next year will see new activations stop and a year later maybe start replacing VIPs with an equivalent Hopper when they fail, at no charge.
I expect next year will see new activations stop and a year later maybe start replacing VIPs with an equivalent Hopper when they fail, at no charge.
"equivalent Hopper" ...hahaha, now that's funny
My VIP 612 DVR failed last week and it was replaced with a refurb. Still trying to get my Dish Anywhere to work.
Larry.
PS: It's been chewing on the transfer to my PC for four hours?
Larry.
PS: It's been chewing on the transfer to my PC for four hours?
Some are not going to see that in the spirit written.... owners of the VIP will however.
What do we get the VIP receivers when they retire? Years of service award? Proof that you can't beat experienced receivers? That know-it-all newcomer receivers have nothing on the older ones? Award for least amount of sick days?
Bingo. That should be the goal for any DVR. No amount of bells and whistles can compensate for a lack of reliability.
That's subjective. Personally, I don't like the VIP's. Just me, but I'll take 2TB Storage, 16 tuners, better info, search, EPG (when it works - Dish needs to go back to their old provider), whole home DVR, Better on demand, etc
Search is definitely not better, and that's not subjective. If the Hoppers had kept Dish Pass and paired that with the 16 tuners and extra storage, they would have had me. And I get better and faster info from a sortable alphabetical or chronological LIST as opposed to a picturebook.
I agree, Search is a crap shoot. Just today, it showed no future airings for a show. Later, I discovered it will air tomorrow morning. Yes, Search Sucks!
On Demand is fine if I wanted to watch commercials. A working DVR doesn't need On Demand. The Rovi data isn't the cause of Dish search issues. Rovi data is the cause of incorrect and missing data. It's Dish's software, they are the ones that have to make the changes to accommodate the Rovi metadata with different program and seach ID's.
A 2 tuner Hopper? What's the point? I was hoping they would come out with a HWS with the faster processor that would approximate the performance of the H3 but without the 16 tuners (the CUI kind of necessitated this) . They could call it H2a model or something like that. This would give them the necessary separation for pricing and be a direct replacement for the HWS.
