Recent content by DmitriA

How will the karaoke thing work? Is it just another music channel(s) they will launch?

What security fix?

I agree. It's very nice, but I do miss the PVR functionality. I can't believe that you can't have it even when you select one of the channels and go full screen. I don't get that. Unfortunately, this seriously diminishes the value of this service for me. I am an addict. I can't live without...

No, it's the Olympic channel. It's available now

Well, the only thing I can see so far is that the Customer Support interactive app stopped working (the one you could call from the menu, not the Dish Home one - that one never worked)

Could it be support for the interactive NBC Olympic channel?

Don't see any changes...

Anyone know what is in it?

Great update. Thanks Dish. Couldn't care much for the OpenTV stuff because the thing is so damn slow, but the other features (search and PIP changes) rock! Good job!

You must have never done any software development if it seems strange to you that code running on identical platforms can work just fine on one box under one set of conditions and completely fail on another. It's caused by error conditions in normally hard to reach places that can only be...

Which is correct. I'm sure there is absolutely nothing wrong with your box. Replacing it would not do you any good. It's the software that's the problem.

Rebooting the box (hold the power button for a few seconds or remove/reinsert the smart card) about once a week helps a lot with these stability issues too. It's really sad that my heavily used Windows machines at home can go for weeks without a reboot and are much more stable than a...

That's why I said - GUI application only. There is no hacking value in seeing the way their timer code works, for example. The stream decryption is done at a much lower hardware level, as is the harddrive storage encryption. To be fast enough for real-time operations, it probably has to be...

The point is not that these open-source guys would write everything for Dish for free and Charlie would sit back and relax and just make money. You still need a core group of dedicated (and paid) developers working full-time on the product, no question about it. But with open-source, you get a...

Of course, if they had open-sourced the GUI user-level application that is responsible for the guide and PVR functions (but not encrypted storage of recordings), many of these bugs would be worked out by now by volunteers submitting patches with bugfixes and new features