DISH Has Made it Impossible to be a VIP211k Owner

[telstar_1]

Plus a box at every set

 

[zippyfrog]

So...yesterday my 9/28/2025 recordings worked. Today, it does not work. In fact, all my recordings no longer work except for today's recordings. The oldest made it 126 days. My recordings from Friday are the newest ones that no longer work...

And yes, what tipped me off was that I could see the amount of the hard drive space was reclaimed...

 

[Anony55]

So...yesterday my 9/28/2025 recordings worked. Today, it does not work. In fact, all my recordings no longer work except for today's recordings. The oldest made it 126 days. My recordings from Friday are the newest ones that no longer work...

And yes, what tipped me off was that I could see the amount of the hard drive space was reclaimed...

I was surprised to see that your recordings were still working before they quit. Your recordings were a lot older than I've been able to get work on my 211k... for quite a while now.

None of my recordings still work. In fact, the NCAA national championship football game recording worked for less than 10 days.

I'll be proving one way or the other if the HDD is at fault. I'm fixin' to reformat it with a PC and hook it to an old OTA (ATSC) DVR. Wanna make any bets about whether or not that cheapo DVR has any trouble with the HDD? lol

It is an old HDD. But it's been reliable. It's an old 1tb 3.5" SATA drive that I put in an external enclosure that has it's own power supply and a cooling fan. I've actually never had a HDD that I put in an external case like this to fail... no matter how old.

Testing the drive on that OTA DVR will tell the tale. I'll report back one way or the other.